Textiles, Teachers, and Troops: Greensboro, North Carolina 1880-1945 Public Launch and Programs in April 2014
Greensboro--Elm St. at RR Crossing Looking North from a Greensboro College scrapbook, of student Mabel Pitts, circa 1920. Courtesy of Greensboro College How did Greensboro become the city it is today? From 1880-1945, three distinct forces helped transform the city: textiles, teachers, and troops. Now, six important area institutions have come together to create a free online tool that documents that transformation and makes it available to the public. Two upcoming programs will highlight that tool and are free and open to the public. On Tuesday, April 8, a public launch of the digital project Textiles, Teachers, and Troops: Greensboro 1880-1945 will be held at the Greensboro Historical Museum at 7 p.m. In addition to demonstration of the project website and a brief outline of Greensboro history during the period, Dr. Kevin Cherry, Deputy Secretary of Archives and History in the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources will speak. ...