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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on May 19, 2019 9:01:20 GMT -5
The News & Record has a very detailed article on the campus riots back in 69 in today’s paper. Here it is. www.greensboro.com/tncms/asset/editorial/2651b346-a1be-532b-86ad-6c988444413d Even though I’ve heard about it from many people over these past 50 years, the events still stand out as absolutely shocking to me. There’s absolutely no way in the world, as I went to school in the 90’s and continue to go on campus for games and other university functions, that my imagination would ever get me to a point to think something like this could actually go down....yet it was an unadulterated reality back in 1969. Much respect to all Aggies who survived and endured some of the darkest moments our university has ever witnessed... |
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Post by saabman on May 19, 2019 12:07:44 GMT -5
The News & Record has a very detailed article on the campus riots back in 69 in today’s paper. Here it is. www.greensboro.com/tncms/asset/editorial/2651b346-a1be-532b-86ad-6c988444413d Even though I’ve heard about it from many people over these past 50 years, the events still stand out as absolutely shocking to me. There’s absolutely no way in the world, as I went to school in the 90’s and continue to go on campus for games and other university functions, that my imagination would ever get me to a point to think something like this could actually go down....yet it was an unadulterated reality back in 1969. Much respect to all Aggies who survived and endured some of the darkest moments our university has ever witnessed... What he did not say was that a lot of black students Page and Smith marched with the Dudley's students . Claude Barnes was respected and well known to all the black students in Greensboro . That was my Sophomore year at Page . We were getting Ready for a Conference meet , They moved it to Winston Salem for our safety . But I remember upper classman leaving Pages campus in car lots heading for Dudley . We lived on Broad Ave at that time and you could smell the tear gas from Broad Ave the Hill and Windsor Center . |
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Post by oldschool on May 19, 2019 13:24:22 GMT -5
I remember we had pictures of the riot somewhere in the old student union , we should have those pictures hanging in the new student union . It would give our current students a true sense of what it means to be an Aggie .
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Post by marchingband1969 on May 19, 2019 15:19:25 GMT -5
It's sad we fail to share our history with the next generatio. If we don't tell our story, I guarantee you we will not like "their" version.
I'm a proud member of the Class of 1969!
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Post by Maxell on May 19, 2019 15:57:00 GMT -5
I'm a proud member of the Class of 1969! Thank you, sir! |
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Post by ohsixrain on May 20, 2019 10:00:20 GMT -5
They ran this documentary at the graduation. Funny I lived in Scott B where the bullet holes were in the walls. 1969, did you participate with golden commencement exercises?
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Post by aggieblackie2 on May 20, 2019 12:24:15 GMT -5
I too was in the Class of 1969 and I participated in our Golden 50th Anniversary during commencement this year.
I too participated in the unrest during those turbulent days. My good friend Willie Grimes was murdered.
No person or organization has been arrested for his murder. This is the longest unsolved murder in Greensboro - Shame.
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Post by ohsixrain on May 20, 2019 14:22:18 GMT -5
I too was in the Class of 1969 and I participated in our Golden 50th Anniversary during commencement this year. I too participated in the unrest during those turbulent days. My good friend Willie Grimes was murdered. No person or organization has been arrested for his murder. This is the longest unsolved murder in Greensboro - Shame. Mad props to you and 1969...it was a very moving ceremony. |
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Post by marchingband1969 on May 21, 2019 16:22:46 GMT -5
They ran this documentary at the graduation. Funny I lived in Scott B where the bullet holes were in the walls. 1969, did you participate with golden commencement exercises? I didn't march in 1969 so I've been waiting 50 years to march. I was stationed at Fort Bragg when my diploma arrived. When I entered the Coliseum and saw all the families in the stands I felt so proud. If you're a diehard Aggie , you've got to participate in this grand weekend. And the University treats you like a rockstar. |
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Post by Bornthrilla on May 22, 2019 9:20:56 GMT -5
Never forget:  |
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Post by Freeze on May 27, 2019 20:07:08 GMT -5
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Post by pj on Jun 1, 2019 1:44:16 GMT -5
It's sad we fail to share our history with the next generatio. If we don't tell our story, I guarantee you we will not like "their" version. I'm a proud member of the Class of 1969! Much Respect. At least it is not erased though. IDK if it is a part of orientation, but possibly a walking tour. (The parts of the Scott Hall wall preserved by the reflecting pool, and Bro Grimes has a monument). I remember when the talk of Scott Hall being torn down was happening and the Buzz was to not touch those parts of the building ( no matter the cost). I think that is was Bro Freddie Starks who was on point. SC State, Jackson St, Southern U, had massacres. ( Who did I miss...among HBCU's).I thought about our history when we played Kent State. |
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Post by Bornthrilla on May 20, 2020 13:45:36 GMT -5
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Post by neighborhoodsuperstar on May 20, 2020 14:20:11 GMT -5
"They drove defenseless students out of their dormitories, killing at least one youth and hospitalized scores with nausea and tear gas."  Seeing a picture of a tank along the walkway between the old bookstore, Scott and Cooper Hall, with it appearing to point guns directly at Cooper Hall......DAMN  I walked that walkway many a day between 1992-96. It's a big parking lot now.....my mind still cannot fathom a tank being right there, with guns pointed at Cooper Hall. Nothing but the utmost of respect for the brothas and sistas who lived (and died) though that horrendous ordeal. |
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Post by bluehaze on May 20, 2020 14:30:26 GMT -5
Good friends with George Grimes (Willie Grimes' younger brother), terrible situation.
We can't forget about SCSU and what they had to deal with as well. Seems like so long ago, but really it was just yesterday...
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