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Carol Chats with Glenn Hinson

In honor of Anthropology Day, Museum Director Carol Ghiorsi Hart will be chatting with Glenn Hinson, Assoc. Professor of Folklore and Anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Meeting in the zoom room for the first time, Carol and Glenn will explore personal, professional and community intersections of anthropology, history, folklore and the work they are doing. Topics include the museum’s Pieces of Now exhibition, Carol’s path from anthropology to history museum, and Hinson’s Descendants Project.  In this project, undergraduates are researching the stories of lynching victims in N.C.

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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 challenges notions about how the South’s racial hierarchies operated. We’ll talk about the lives of free people of color and the work of writing about changing ideas about race, identity and civil liberties.

Free program. Register to join on Zoom

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Or watch live on the Greensboro History Museum Facebook page

History Lunch Break comes to you live most Fridays with conversations on all kinds of history with all kinds of interesting people. Visit the episode archive on the GHM YouTube channel

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 Robert Baggett, Tom Donahue, Tim Quillen and GHM Education Curator Rodney Dawson about their effort to make a documentary video about the Greensboro Six and the legacy of Dr. George Simkins Jr.

Free program. Register to join on Zoom

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Or watch live on the Greensboro History Museum Facebook page

History Lunch Break comes to you live most Fridays with conversations on all kinds of history with all kinds of interesting people. Visit the episode archive on the GHM YouTube channel

Exclusion by Design: From Redlining to Gentrification, a Community Conversation

One of the best ways for families to pass down wealth is through home equity. However, home ownership has been unattainable for many African Americans. Historical discriminatory lending regulations have led to systemically-ingrained segregation through the zoning practice of “redlining.” Join us as we examine systemic barriers to home ownership and generational wealth.

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Sponsored by Greensboro Public Library and Greensboro History Museum