{"id":6187,"date":"2017-03-15T10:29:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T14:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/library\/?page_id=6187"},"modified":"2025-10-14T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T13:07:38","slug":"william-penn-collection","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.highpoint.edu\/library\/william-penn-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"The William Penn Oral History Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The William Penn Project<\/a> is a classroom-based service learning initiative that explores and shares the history of a segregated African American high school in High Point, North Carolina from its founding in 1892 through its closure in 1968. Undergraduate students at High Point University and high school students at the Penn-Griffin School for the Arts (which inhabits the buildings that used to hold William Penn High School) are doing archival research and oral history interviews with alumni and using that evidence to build a website on the history of the school. More memorabilia and information can be found at the William Penn Project on Biblioboard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Oral History Interviews – Alumni
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Ninja Column 1<\/th>Ninja Column 2<\/th>Ninja Column 3<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Peggy Allen<\/a><\/td>Gwyn Davis<\/a><\/td>Jeanette Porter<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
John Barber<\/a><\/td>Murray Davis<\/a><\/td>Hank Pressley<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Mary Lou Blakeney<\/a><\/td>Freddye Dixon<\/a>\n<\/td>Willie Pressley<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Yvonne Bostic-Short<\/a><\/td>Diane Douglas<\/a><\/td>Clara Saulter<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Bob Brown<\/a><\/td>Betty Foster<\/a><\/td>Jimmy Scott<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Charles Byrd<\/a><\/td>Carlvena Foster<\/a><\/td>Annie Sturdivant<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Jerry Camp<\/a><\/td>Jackie Haizlip<\/a><\/td>Gerald Truesdale<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Albert Campbell<\/a><\/td>Ron Hutton<\/a><\/td>Hank Wall<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Barbara Carter<\/a><\/td>Burdell Knight<\/a><\/td>Herbert Wiley<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Glenn Chavis<\/a><\/td>Laverne Lucas<\/a><\/td>Arlean Wilkes<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Julius Clark<\/a><\/td>Lateef Mangum<\/a><\/td>Roger Wilson<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Dorothy Collins<\/a><\/td>Berenice Mayfield<\/a><\/td>Fred Wright<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n
Elwyn Crawford<\/a><\/td>Jerry Mingo<\/a><\/td><\/td> <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

Oral History Interviews – Supporters<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Ninja Column 1<\/th>Ninja Column 2<\/th>Ninja Column 3<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Anne Andrews<\/a><\/td>Dorothy Kearns<\/a><\/td>Linda Willard<\/a><\/td> <\/tr>\n <\/tbody>\n <\/table>\n \n \n \n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n

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Ninja Column 1<\/th>Ninja Column 2<\/th>Ninja Column 3<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
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Snapshot, 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>
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Miss William Penn Court, 1958<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>
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William Penn Majorettes, 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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William Penn High School, 1966<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>
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Pennpoint, 1966<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>
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Graduation, 1966<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td> <\/tr>\n
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Sit-In<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>
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Homecoming<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/td>
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