Charles Adams and the Controversy over Use of the Woman’s College Library in Segregated North Carolina
- UNCG Author/Contributor (non-UNCG co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Erin Lawrimore, University Archivist (Creator)
- Institution
- The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG )
- Web Site: http://library.uncg.edu/
Abstract: On November 13, 1950,
Edward Kidder Graham
Jr., the recently installed
chancellor at the Woman’s College
of the University of North Carolina
in Greensboro, (now the University
of North Carolina at Greensboro),
wrote a letter to his administrative
counterparts at Bennett College
and North Carolina Agricultural
and Technical College, both African
American institutions of higher learning
also in Greensboro. In the letter,
he issued an open invitation for these
leaders as well as other faculty members
and student body representatives
to attend the upcoming Harriet
Elliott Social Science Forum titled
“Public Opinion in a Democracy.”
Graham stated that “the round table
sessions on Friday afternoon are for
faculty and student representatives
of participating institutions, and all
seats are open to all delegates at these
round table sessions. On the other
hand for the general meetings in
Aycock Auditorium at public events,
and in accordance with the policy of
the Consolidated University, we shall
have to ask those of our guests who
are Negroes to sit in a section reserved
for them.”1
Charles Adams and the Controversy over Use of the Woman’s College Library in Segregated North Carolina
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Additional Information
- Publication
- North Carolina Libraries, 71(1)
- Language: English
- Date: 2013
- Keywords
- charles adams, segregation, women's colleges, academic libraries, north carolina, librarianship, library history