Category: University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni

Category: University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni

Category: University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni

Category: University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni

Category: University of North Carolina at Greensboro alumni

* Ezell A. Blair, Jr., One of The Greensboro Four, male African-American student from North Carolina A & T State University who in 1960 started the first civil rights sit-in ; action eventually led to lunch counters and restaurants being desegregated throughout the Southern United States, attended Dudley.

Nuckles of Barbecue fame, who opened the first Barbecue Restaurant in Greensboro on Summit Avenue in 1936.

* Franklin McCain, One of The Greensboro Four, male African-American student from North Carolina A & T State University who in 1960 started the first civil rights sit-in ; action eventually led to lunch counters and restaurants being desegregated throughout the Southern United States, attended Dudley.

* Joseph McNeil, One of The Greensboro Four, male African-American student from North Carolina A & T State University who in 1960 started the first civil rights sit-in ; action eventually led to lunch counters and restaurants being desegregated throughout the Southern United States

* David Richmond, One of The Greensboro Four, male African-American student from North Carolina A & T State University who in 1960 started the first civil rights sit-in ; action eventually led to lunch counters and restaurants being desegregated throughout the Southern United States, attended Dudley.

General Judson Kilpatrick, commanding officer of the Union cavalry advance, forced Confederate forces under the command of Generals Wade Hampton III and Joseph Wheeler to withdraw in haste who were frantically trying to transport their remaining supplies and wounded by rail westward toward the final Confederate encampment in Greensboro, NC.

Political candidates frequently campaigned at Greensboro, including, in 1851 Jefferson Davis who was seeking the office of governor.

Lee was the first lawyer for the " Greensboro Four / A & T Four ", who were instrumental in one of the earliest of the " Sit-Ins " during the Civil rights movement, and who were students of his alma mater, North Carolina A & T State University in Greensboro, NC.

After the Civil War, the manufacture of stoneware became Greensboro ’ s leading industry, in addition to a prosperous clay tile manufacturer who specialized in roofing tiles.

Coal defined the region and the lives of those who inhabited it, and made not only Greensboro and the Monongahela Valley prosperous, but the nation as well.

Bowles was born and raised in Greensboro, North Carolina and is the son of Jessamine Woodward Boyce Bowles and the late Hargrove " Skipper " Bowles, Jr., a Democratic politician who once ran for Governor of North Carolina, in 1972, but lost.

After three weeks of intense speculation throughout March 1949 as to whom the governor might choose for the Senate, attention focused on individuals ranging from the senator's widow, who expressed no interest ; Scott's former campaign manager, Capus Miller Waynick ; another Scott supporter, Major Lennox Polk McLendon, a lawyer from Greensboro, North Carolina ; former Senator Umstead ; and the governor himself.

Prysock, who was born in 1926 in Greensboro, North Carolina, died of a heart attack in 1993 in Chicago, at the age of 67.

When Eller proposes to Kate, the latter, who has turned out to be a quitter, once again leaves everything behind her and moves on — this time to Greensboro, where she joins her former teacher, Miss Limer.

The Storm would be matched with the West Division's fourth place team, the Erie Panthers, who had defeated the Greensboro Monarchs in the 1st Round of the playoffs.

Grey Brewster went on to form a local Greensboro, NC cover band who played for several years before he finally settled in Charlotte, NC to begin work as a singer-songwriter / session musician.

Grady O ' Neal Jackson ( born January 21, 1973 in Greensboro, Alabama ) is an American football defensive tackle who most recently played for the Florida Tuskers of the United Football League.

Shortly after the announcement, some of the company's assets and supply contracts were acquired by the Greensboro, North Carolina based International Textile Group Inc. who have a partnership with China Ting Group, a textile manufacturer based in Hong Kong.

The Board of Trustees considered three finalists: University of North Carolina at Greensboro assistant chancellor Elisabeth Zinser, who is not Deaf ; I.

At a supershow called ' Boogie Man Jam ' 84 ' in Greensboro, NC, which also featured an NWA World title match with Ric Flair defending vs. Ricky Steamboat that went to a one hour draw, Valiant defeated Assassin II, who was unmasked and revealed as Hercules Hernandez.

Lawrence Ethan Albright ( born May 1, 1971 in Greensboro, North Carolina ) is an American football long snapper who is currently a free agent.

* July 25 – The Woolworth Company's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, the location of a sit-in that had sparked demonstrations by Negroes across the Southern United States, serves a meal to its first black customer.

In one interview, Mickey stated that the people of Greensboro had " gone out of their way to make me feel welcome, and I've found something there I haven't enjoyed since I was a kid.

However, Triangle-area fans balked at making the drive down I-40 to Greensboro, and fans from the Piedmont Triad mostly refused to support a lame-duck team that had displaced the longtime Greensboro / Carolina Monarchs minor-league franchise.

Greensboro, which had already begun to deteriorate, rapidly declined.

Greensboro had a Methodist church as early as 1839 and a Baptist church was begun in 1846.

Greensboro had the reputation of a rough and lawless town, many notorious criminals and murders were located there.

By the 1850s, the slack water system of locks and dams had been developed by the Monongahela Navigation Company ( later acquired by the Army Corp of Engineers ), allowing for year-round travel to and from Pittsburgh to the Greensboro area.

However, by the beginning of World War I, all significant production had ended and 1916 generally marks the end of stoneware manufacturing in Greensboro.

The District has done an excellent job of promoting the significance of this designation and encouraging homeowners to follow the rehabilitation and maintenance guidelines found in the homeowners ’ manual that Greensboro Borough Council had published.

: At that time, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been laid as far south as Greensboro and, a little later, to Ridgely and Hillsboro and thence across Tuckahoe Creek.

The institution had its origin in 1833, when the Greensboro Female College was organized as an institution for local children.

The playful name combined humanist values with the scores of sit-ins that had been reforming college and university practices and eroding the vestiges of entrenched segregation, starting with the Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in of 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina.

In October 2008, The Politico reported that Hagan's husband Chip Hagan III, a former Democratic county leader, had been a member of 1, 000-member Greensboro Country Club for years, despite the club's de facto segregation and refusal to admit black members.

With the Hurricanes moving to their new home in Raleigh, they had to either put the franchise back in Greensboro or buy it from the owners.

He also had an additional win to that — the Greater Greensboro Chrysler Classic two starts later.

They first defeated Flair's " cousins " Gene and Ole Anderson on December 26, 1976 in Greensboro, injuring Gene so badly that he had to be stretchered out.

In spite of this, the Cougars had a good fan following, particularly in Greensboro.

Greensboro had developed a rabid fan base which gave great support to the Cougars.

The Commission also found that the Greensboro Police Department had infiltrated the Klan and, through a paid informant, knew of the white supremacists ’ plans and the strong potential for violence.

The winner, Song Anh Nguyen of Greensboro, NC, had her designed produced by Wrangler and available for sale.

Following the 1968 season, Greensboro dropped out of professional ball for the next ten years, during a time when minor league baseball had lost popularity.

That nickname was better known for teams based in Charlotte, but the Charlotte Hornets baseball team had abandoned its nickname after the 1973 season, and the new Greensboro team adopted it.