- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- [Letter from Grimsley Hobbs to Robert Frazier]
- Creator:
- Hobbs, Grimsley T.
- Date of Original:
- 1970-03-17
- Subject:
- Guilford College
Race relations - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- correspondence
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In this March 17, 1970 letter to Guilford College trustee, Robert Frazier, President Grimsley Hobbs reports on several of the school's African American students speaking to members of the college's administration and faculty about pressures they were under as black students on campus. The letter conveys how the students feel a real hostility on campus and how they requested the use of the college cars to go to town due to the difficulty for black youths to hitch rides in Greensboro. The administration agreed to the use of campus cars and found two empty rooms for the students to meet where they might feel less hostility. The administration could not agree to the students' request of a guaranteed minimum grade requirement of "C" for the semester based on the extra work done by the student regarding race relations. The letter also relates how the students spent time "lounging" in New Garden Hall the following Monday in a respectful and friendly attitude of protest. Hobbs tells Frazier that the occurrence helped to bring attention to the difficulties the students faced and that "on the whole some good has come from the situation."
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/1173
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Extent:
- 8.515x10.895
- Original Collection:
- CRG
MS528 Robert Frazier Papers - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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