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University Libraries at UNCG Contribute African American History Materials to Google Cultural Institute

Housekeeping Staff of the State Normal and Industrial School, circa 1895 Starting this week, artifacts from the University Libraries at UNC Greensboro can be viewed online by people around the world due to a new partnership between the Google Cultural Institute and the University Libraries. Visitors to the Google Cultural Institute site may also view an exhibit regarding African Americans at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 1892-1971.  To view the exhibit and learn more about the UNCG materials on the site, see https://uncglibraries.culturalspot.org/home This exhibit traces the history of African American faculty, staff, and students at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), from its opening as the State Normal and Industrial School in 1892 until 1971. Through digitized photographs and documents as well as audio clips from oral history interviews conducted as part of the African American Institutional Memory Project, viewers can learn more about

UNCG Faculty Members Jody Natalle and Jenni Simon will Present “Michelle Obama: First Lady, American Rhetor” on February 9 at 4 pm

The event is free and open to the public.  For more information or to request  disability accommodations, please contact Barry Miller at 336-256-0112 or barry_miller@uncg.edu