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Program for Grambling State University Commemorative Football Game
- Distributed by
- Grambling State University, American, founded 1901
- Subject of
- Robinson, Edward Gay Sr., American, 1919 - 2007
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, American, founded 1890
- Date
- November 15, 1997
- Medium
- ink on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (28 × 21.6 cm)
- Caption
- This football program commemorates the final home game for legendary Grambling State University coach Eddie Robinson. Grambling fell to North Carolina A&T, 35-37. At the end of the 1997 season, Robinson retired after coaching Grambling for fifty-six years with an overall record of 408 wins (the second most in NCAA Division I history), 165 losses, and 15 ties.
- Description
- A Grambling State University Special Commemorative Football Game Souvenir Program celebrating head coach Eddie Robinson. At center of the front cover is the Grambling State University seal surrounded by 12 photographic images of Eddie Robinson, arranged in a circle. Below the circle of images, against a golden yellow background, text in black and red reads: ["Portraits of a Living Coaching Legend" / Special Commemorative Football Game Souvenir Program / Grambling State University / vs. / North Carolina A&T]. Below the text is a pre-printed signature: [Eddie Robinson]. In the bottom right corner printed in red is: [No. 0212]. The interior consists of fourteen pages of information about the team, pictures, letters, thanks to Robinson, and advertisements. The back cover contains and advertisement Johnny's Pizza House.
- Place used
- Grambling, Lincoln Parish, Louisiana, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Documents and Published Materials
- Type
- programs
- Topic
- Caricature and cartoons
- Education
- Football
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of Dr. Leonard L. Haynes, III
- Object number
- 2017.4
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Grambling State University. Permission required for use.
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Esther M.A. Terry, Ph. D. Oral History Interview
- Created by
- Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
- Interview of
- Terry, Esther M. A. Ph. D., American, born 1939
- Interviewed by
- Mosnier, Joseph Ph. D.
- Subject of
- Bennett College, American, founded 1873
- F. W. Woolworth Company, American, 1879 - 1997
- North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, American, founded 1890
- Player, Willa Beatrice, American, 1909 - 2003
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, American, founded 1789
- University of Massachusets Amherst, American, founded 1863
- Date
- July 6, 2011
- Medium
- digital
- Dimensions
- Duration: 01:16:28
- Description
- The oral history consists of ten digital files: 2011.174.28.1a, 2011.174.28.1b, 2011.174.28.1c, 2011.174.28.1d, 2011.174.28.1e, 2011.174.28.1f, 2011.174.28.1g, 2011.174.28.1h, 2011.174.28.1i, 2011.174.28.1j.
- Esther M. A. Terry Ph.D. remembers growing up in Wise, North Carolina, and attending Bennett College. She recalls planning the Greensboro Woolworth's sit-in with students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (later North Carolina A &T University), being arrested for her participation, and the support of the Bennett College President, Dr. Willa Player. She also discusses attending the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for her master's degree, and founding the African American Studies program at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus), where she earned her Ph.D. and taught for many years.
- LOC ID: afc2010039_crhp0028
- Place collected
- Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Place depicted
- Wise, Warren County, North Carolina, United States, North and Central America
- Collection title
- Civil Rights History Project
- Classification
- Media Arts-Film and Video
- Movement
- Civil Rights Movement
- Type
- video recordings
- oral histories
- digital media - born digital
- Topic
- Activism
- American South
- Associations and institutions
- Civil rights
- Education
- HBCUs (Historically Black Colleges and Universities)
- Resistance
- Social reform
- U.S. History, 1953-1961
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
- Object number
- 2011.174.28.1a-j
- Restrictions & Rights
- © Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture and The American Folklife Center, Library of Congress