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Ohio State University. Gwendolyn Sneed O'Neal (1946 – June 12, 2024) was an American academic administrator and home economist who served as the interim president of Bennett College in 2019. She was a professor and head of the Department of Consumer, Apparel, and Retail Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, retiring in 2014.
Alan Branson, American politician [10] Michael Brooks, NFL defensive back [11] Hal "Skinny" Brown, MLB pitcher, member of Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame [12] Tony Brown, record producer [13] Joseph M. Bryan, businessman and philanthropist, lived in Greensboro until his death in 1995.
Greensboro (/ ˈɡriːnzbʌroʊ / ⓘ; [ 5 ] local pronunciation / ˈɡriːnzbʌrə /) is a city in and the county seat of Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. At the 2020 census, its population was 299,035; it was estimated to be 302,296 in 2023. [ 6 ] It is the third-most populous city in North Carolina, after Charlotte and Raleigh ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — The Greensboro Police Department has revealed what caused a crash that left one person dead on Tuesday morning. The Tuesday morning crash shut down all lanes of US 29 ...
Charlotte Conant Fox (May 10, 1957 – May 24, 2018) was an American mountaineer and the first American woman to reach the summit of three eight thousander peaks. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster as a member of Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness expedition. She died of head injuries on May 24, 2018, after falling over a stairway ...
2. Nina Ellen Riggs (March 29, 1977 – February 26, 2017) [1] was an American writer and poet. Her best known work is her memoir, The Bright Hour, [2] detailing her journey as a mother with incurable breast cancer. It was published shortly after her death. The book received critical acclaim. [3][4][5][6] Riggs also contributed an article to ...
1968. 1970. [2] Jerry Bledsoe (born 1941) is an American author and journalist known for several true crime titles based on murders in his native state of North Carolina. His journalism career, which spanned over 20 years, included newspaper work in the North Carolina cities of Kannapolis, Charlotte, and Greensboro and work at Esquire magazine.
Dr. George Simkins Jr. (August 23, 1924 – November 21, 2001) was a dentist, community leader in Greensboro, North Carolina, and civil rights activist.During the 1950s, he won several significant desegregation lawsuits and was, for a quarter of a century, the president of the Greensboro branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).