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Collection Description:

Greensboro College's student newspaper, The Collegian, began publication in January of 1926. The newspaper collection contains extant copies up to the present. The student newspapers contain useful and interesting information about what life was like at the College and what the students of the time were thinking about. Included in this project are selected articles from the newspaper that document attitudes about integration from the 1950s, civil rights activities in Greensboro during the 1960s, the integration of the school in the 1970s, and the activities and opinions African American students.

For more information about Greensboro College’s Newspaper Collection, please consult the Brock Museum’s website.

Repository: Greensboro College


Items from this collection included in the CRG digital archive

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Item thumbnail image Writer Discusses Race Prejudice at G.C.
Date: March 16, 1951
By: unknown
From: Collegian
This March, 16, 1951 article published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian, reports on writer Lillian Smith’s talk to Greensboro College girls reg...
Item thumbnail image Miss Biswas From Pakistan to Visit G.C. March 11-13
Date: March 4, 1954
By: unknown
From: Collegian
This March 4, 1954 article published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian, announces the upcoming visit of Miss Biswas of Pakistan to the Greensbor...
Item thumbnail image Current Opinion
Date: December 3, 1954
By: unknown
From: Collegian
Written on the heels of the US Supreme Court decision in Brown v. the Board of Education, this December 3, 1954 op-ed article published in the Greensboro College student...
Item thumbnail image Little Rock Hits Headlines
Date: October 2, 1957
By: Carole Marshall
From: Collegian
In this October, 2, 1957 News in Review article in The Collegian, Greensboro College's student newspaper, Carole Marshall gives a summary of...
Item thumbnail image You Might Have Known
Date: November 20, 1957
By: unknown
From: Collegian
This November 20, 1957 editorial published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian, discusses a controversial State Student Legislature (SSL) resoluti...
Item thumbnail image Anthropology: Are People Really Different?
Date: February 1, 1960
By: Peggy Kirkman
From: Collegian
This February 11, 1960 article was published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian “as a preface to the forthcoming visit of Margaret Mead to ...
Item thumbnail image A&T Students Protest Social Inhibitions
Date: February 11, 1960
By: Kyleen Turner
From: Collegian
This February 11, 1960 News in Review article published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian discusses the recent sit-...
Item thumbnail image Around the Cracker Barrel
Date: February 11, 1960
By: Edward H. Bryant, Jr.
From: Collegian
In this February 11, 1960 editorial published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian, Edward H. Bryant, Jr. discusses the Woolworth sit-ins that occu...
Item thumbnail image Civil Rights Provoke Filibuster
Date: March 14, 1960
By: Kyleen Turner
From: Collegian
This March 14, 1960 article published in the Greensboro College student newspaper, The Collegian describes a filibuster that occurred in US Congress on February 29, 1960...
Item thumbnail image Around the Cracker Barrel
Date: April 20, 1960
By: Edward H. Bryant, Jr.
From: Collegian
This April 20, 1960 op-ed article in The Collegian, Greensboro College's student newspaper, gives Ed Bryant's views regarding race relations, including the sit-ins which...