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February 2021
History Lunch Break: $4.50 and Change
In December 1955, a round of golf at Greensboro's Gillespie Park became a major civil rights showdown. We'll talk with…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: More Than Just a Home
James Baldwin. James Brown. Satchel Paige. These are just a few of the notable Black travelers to stay at Greensboro's…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: Complexities of Color in Early NC
In his new book, North Carolina’s Free People of Color, 1715–1885, Dr. Warren Milteer Jr. of UNCG's Department of History…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: Aggie Veterans of the Great War
Curator of Collections Jon B. Zachman talks with James R. Stewart Jr., Archives & Special Collections Librarian at A&T’s F.…
Find out more »March 2021
History Lunch Break: Family Remedy – RESCHEDULED
The 1918-19 influenza epidemic helped transform Lunsford Richardson’s Vicks business into a global company. Ashley Kaufman, author of “The Little…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: Battle Anniversary in a Pandemic
Rebecca Barefoot of Guilford Courthouse National Military Park joins us to talk about the Battle of Guilford Courthouse and some…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: Ella Baker–Six Decades in the Making
As the Sit-in Movement launched in Greensboro expanded, Ella Baker of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference invited student leaders to…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: Exceptional Athlete, Exceptional Students
March is Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. On this week’s History Lunch Break, Curator of Collections Jon B. Zachman shares a…
Find out more »April 2021
History Lunch Break: East White Oak Past and Present
The East White Oak Community Center has been serving its mill village neighborhood for more than a century. Justin Lewter…
Find out more »History Lunch Break: NC African Americans During World War II
Ernest Hooker from the North Carolina A&T State University Department of History and Political Science talks with Jon Zachman about…
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