Travel Article April 2015
QCT Greensboro Slavery to Civil Rights Tour™ 2015

On May 1, 2010, Queen City Tours^® and Travel embarked on its first Greensboro Slavery to Civil Rights Tour™. Our day trip started off with a tour of Greensboro, North Carolina from an African-American perspective and was hosted by a local professional guide. Our tour included a drive through the campus of Guilford College which is known as the location of a hiding place where Vestal and Levi Coffin assisted Slaves with passage to the North from 1830 until the end of the Civil War in 1864. It was part of the Underground Railroad network and today there is a marker commemorating this place on West Friendly Avenue.


Also included on the city tour was the Greensboro Cultural Center which is home to the African-American Atelier which showcases local artists, North Carolina A&T State University whose alumni include Black astronaut Ron McNair and the Reverend Jesse Jackson, the Bennett College for Women, and the Charlotte Hawkins Brown Museum at the Historic Palmer Institute which is the first historic site to honor an African-American woman.