Dawn Ogden ACC Dawn's Destinations Travel Services 2026 Travel Interview
By Staff
Trend Magazine Online™
A Step Back Into Time!
Re-published from a previous edition with Updates...
Trend Magazine Online™
A Step Back Into Time!
Re-published from a previous edition with Updates...
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.
Lunch was Dutch treat and included a choice of over
20 local restaurants that featured both
American and foreign cuisines. The locals, however,
suggested that we try the ″finger licking″
barbecued ribs. After lunch, we embarked on the highlight of our day
trip which included a tour of the newly opened Civil Rights
Museum. The museum is an archival center, collecting museum,
and teaching facility devoted to the international struggle for civil
and human rights which also celebrate's the nonviolent protests of the
1960 Greensboro sit-ins that sparked the Civil
Rights Movement nationwide. The original portion of the lunch
counter and stools where the four students sat on Feb. 1,
1960, has never been moved from its original footprint.
Our adventurous day ended with a step back into time when
Black people in the United States
were considered the property of their owners. We visited the former
plantation of tanner Richard Mendenhall located just
southwest of Greensboro in Old
Jamestown, North Carolina. This
1811 home is in the National Register of
Historic Places and features a barn that houses a restored
false-bottomed wagon used to transport Slaves during the
Underground Railroad Movement from North
Carolina to the North.
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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.
Lunch was Dutch treat and included a choice of over
20 local restaurants that featured both
American and foreign cuisines. The locals, however,
suggested that we try the ″finger licking″
barbecued ribs. After lunch, we embarked on the highlight of our day
trip which included a tour of the newly opened Civil Rights
Museum. The museum is an archival center, collecting museum,
and teaching facility devoted to the international struggle for civil
and human rights which also celebrate's the nonviolent protests of the
1960 Greensboro sit-ins that sparked the Civil
Rights Movement nationwide. The original portion of the lunch
counter and stools where the four students sat on Feb. 1,
1960, has never been moved from its original footprint. Our adventurous day ended with a step back into time when
Black people in the United States
were considered the property of their owners. We visited the former
plantation of tanner Richard Mendenhall located just
southwest of Greensboro in Old
Jamestown, North Carolina. This
1811 home is in the National Register of
Historic Places and features a barn that houses a restored
false-bottomed wagon used to transport Slaves during the
Underground Railroad Movement from North
Carolina to the North. 
