- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- North Carolina - Greensboro: Warmoth T. Gibbs
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dent, Thomas C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-02-02
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights
Education
Church buildings
Segregation - Location:
- United States, Louisiana, Saint Mary Parish, Baldwin, 29.83798, -91.54428
United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198 - Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews Dr. Warmoth T. Gibbs in Greensboro, North Carolina. Gibbs, former president of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, discusses A&T's farm outside of the city and the tobacco industry. He talks about life in his hometown of Baldwin, Louisiana. Most of his family attended Gilbert Academy in Baldwin, before it moved to New Orleans where Dent later attended. He also knew the family of Andrew Young, and he and Dent discuss their mutual acquaintances in New Orleans. Dent outlines the history of Gilbert Academy. Gibbs talks his former classmates and acquaintances from Harvard who ended up in the Methodist clergy in New Orleans. He talks about Bennett College in Greensboro and the United Negro College Fund. Gibbs came to A&T in 1926. He discusses his time there and talks about Greensboro in 1926.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53910
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
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