From the 1937-38 Carolina Theatre boycott to the 1960 Sit-ins and into the 21st century, the Gate City has been home to many important protest actions. This year’s Juneteenth Bike Tour visits civil rights protest sites around Downtown Greensboro to explore how people have marched and organized against inequality. Join us on an easy guided tour appropriate for most levels of riders.
Tour departs 9:30 am and returns to museum by 11 am. Check-in opens at 9 am.
Free tour, but registration is required and spots are limited. Register through Bicycling in Greensboro by June 20 at 10 pm
Bikes: Bring your own bike! Or reserve a free/discounted bike to use by filling out this form: Reserve a bike to borrow. Reservations for bicycles will be open until Wednesday, June 18th. If you have reserved a bike to borrow, please arrive at 8:30 am on June 21st.
Helmets: Helmets are required. If you don’t have a helmet of your own, one can be provided. Please let us know beforehand at Nicole.Lindahl@BikeGSO.org
Participants are required to sign a waiver on the day of the event.
Photo: Felipe Troncoso/Greensboro History Museum
Explore the galleries and meet costumed interpreters portraying activists and public figures including suffragist Gertrude Weil, civil rights attorney J. Kenneth Lee, and Gov. William R. Davie, a signer of the U.S. Constitution. Free tours leave every 10-15 minutes from the museum lobby.
Lifted Voices is a series of living history programs that bring to life people and stories from Greensboro’s past. This is a free, family-friendly program. Join us for history in first person.
GHM is thrilled to co-sponsor a program exploring the growing influence of independent voters with experts from across the country organized by UNCG Lloyd International Honors College next Tuesday, September 12 at 6 pm in the Elliott University Center Auditorium.
Free admission!
Play, participate, party!
Drop by for fun and games including team Democracy Trivia, an elaborate History Scavenger Hunt, Gerrymander Madness VR game and more.
Plus crafts, DJ, Backyard Flames food truck, and beverages for sale from Little Brother Brewing!
This free event supports the museum’s exhibition NC Democracy: Eleven Elections. Learn more…
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Costumed interpreters in the museum galleries share well-known and little-known stories from the exhibition NC Democracy: Eleven Elections. You’ll meet Federalist James Iredell, North Carolina’s first woman attorney Tabitha Ann Holton, Battle of Hayes Pond Participant Verdia Locklear and many more.
Lifted Voices is a series of living history programs that bring to life people and stories from Greensboro’s (and North Carolina’s) past. This is a free, family-friendly program. Join us for history in first person.
Discover some of East Greensboro’s political pioneers on a five-mile family friendly guided bicycle tour of places and people that helped reshape what democracy looked like in Greensboro. We’ll learn about Zoe P. Barbee, Dr. William Hampton, Justice Henry Frye and more. In support of Greensboro History Museum’s exhibition NC Democracy: Eleven Elections and the Project Democracy 20/20 initiative.
Check-in starts 12 pm. Tour departs 12:30 and returns to museum by 2 pm. Free event. Registration required through Bicycling in Greensboro.
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.
Free program. Register to join on Zoom
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Join National Park Interpretation Ranger Jason Baum from Guilford Courthouse National Military Park for a look into some lesser-known facts about the American Revolution.
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Sponsored by the Greensboro Public Library and Greensboro History Museum
Greensboro Public Library’s Anthems of Change
Donna Washington will present her one-woman show, Chairs in the Trees, about her experiences as a black woman, with racism in America, and “otherness”. Washington is an internationally renowned storyteller based in North Carolina. She is a multiple award winning spoken word recording artist and author. Donna is a highly animated performer who has been called “a walking Disney movie” who has been entertaining, educating, and inspiring audiences with her vocal pyrotechnics, elastic face, and deep characterizations that bring folklore, literary tales, and personal narratives to life for over thirty years.
Watch the performance at 7 pm on the Greensboro Public Library Facebook page
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The Anthems of Change series from Greensboro Public Library, is sponsored by the Greensboro Public Library Foundation. Movements seeking social change have long used music and storytelling. Singers and storytellers have lent both their talents to the American Civil Rights Movement, Labor Equality, and Indigenous Rights. They have played an essential role bolstering courage, inspiring participation, and fostering a sense of community.
Anthems of Change is also part of Project Democracy 20/20, spearheaded by the Greensboro History Museum. This initiative explores American democracy through exhibitions, public programs and innovative community connections.
Part of Anthems of Change from Greensboro Public Library
Six-time Grammy nominee John McCutcheon shares an evening of music in this wide-ranging tribute to the music of his friend and mentor Pete Seeger. John McCutcheon is an American folk music singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who has produced 40 albums since the 1970s. He is regarded as a master of the hammered dulcimer.
Watch the performance at 7 pm on the Greensboro Public Library Facebook page
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Register on Zoom to join the live Q&A at 8 pm
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The Anthems of Change series from Greensboro Public Library, is sponsored by the Greensboro Public Library Foundation. Movements seeking social change have long used music and storytelling. Singers and storytellers have lent both their talents to the American Civil Rights Movement, Labor Equality, and Indigenous Rights. They have played an essential role bolstering courage, inspiring participation, and fostering a sense of community.
Anthems of Change is also part of Project Democracy 20/20, spearheaded by the Greensboro History Museum. This initiative explores American democracy through exhibitions, public programs and innovative community connections.