University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Multicultural Awareness Paper & Immersion Experience Deja Roberson The University of North Carolina at Greensboro This Multicultural awareness project will help me gain insight on different cultures as well as improve my knowledge and understanding of cultural diversity. Based on my reflection paper and little exposure I had to interview these groups of people. I decided to immerse myself with the middle eastern culture, specifically people of Arabic descent. When I think about the…

Antiwar Movement at the University of Alabama”, Gary Sprayberry, the author, expresses the obstruction to student rights on the University of Alabama campus in the late 1960s and early 1970s. With the civil rights movements coming to an end and the…

Miss Ella Baker founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960 at Shaw University (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010, p.95). She believed that the students would be instrumental in this movement as combined they would form a powerful strength to be reckoned with during the Jim Crow era (Desmond & Emirbayer 2010). The SNCC was comprised…

substitute counselor at Cone Elementary, during my first four months working there. I worked at Cone Elementary as a Tutor for AmeriCorps through Black Child Development Institute of Greensboro. He was one of the first employees I met Cone Elementary, when he discovered I was a graduate student at North Carolina A&T State University our interactions became more frequent. He was excited to know that I was pursuing my Masters in School Counseling, he spoke very highly of the counseling profession…

The Civil Rights Movement was considered one of the darkest moments in black history. Although African Americans were freed from slavery, their human rights were held captive. Despite the Supreme Court’s effort to afford blacks a fair education, white America contrived to devalue African Americans. Regardless of the systematic roadblocks in place African Americans always persevered. Instead of violence, African Americans used influence, political power, and protesting to voice their displeasures…

more than I should about clients and their issues which results to me being emotional drained at the end of the day. Demographics I am a 22-year-old, African- American, Christian woman from Raleigh, North Carolina. I am currently enrolled full time at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro as a Social Work major expected to graduate in May 2018. I am considered lower middle class currently. I am employed part-time to support myself and my family. I come from a single parent family…

The university of North Carolina in Greensboro is always hosting events. From decorate a cookie to the Wildin’ Out show with Nick Cannon. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend any of the Homecoming activities. The Halloween Celebration was the first interesting event I could attend. I attended the Halloween Celebration on October 25th. This event was held in the Maple Room of the EUC building. The Halloween Celebration was from the hours of eleven o’clock till two o’clock. During these hours,…

By 1960, the nonviolent measures taken during the civil rights movement had begun to gain momentum. “Cooking Up Change: How Food Helped Fuel The Civil Rights Movement” by Nancy Shute, gives the reader a better understanding of why the denial of fair dining is important. The article emphasizes the idea that segregation leads to action; it like cause and effect. Nancy Shute stated, “Legal challenges and demonstrations were cracking the foundations of segregation, but a black person still couldn't…

The 1950 's were the start of the Civil Rights Movement that ended in the 1960 's. This movements ' goal was to bring equality to everyone. The nation was "torn apart by racial, political, social, and cultural clashes." In the town of Oxford, North Carolina the Tyson family and a few other white families supported the civil rights movement while the majority opposed the movement and the black equality that would come with it. White supremacy was a major belief in the South back then and…

Student protestors of Gallaudet University presented the Gallaudet University Board of Trustees with four demands: 1. The resignation of the newly appointed university president Elizabeth Zinser, a hearing person, and the selection of a Deaf person as the universities president. 2. The immediate resignation of Jane Basset Spilman, who was chair of the Board of Trustees. 3. The reconstitution of the Board of Trustees with at least a 51% majority made of Deaf members. 4. No repercussions to any…