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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

Three days in May: A look back at the 1969 disturbances that rocked a college campus and a city

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A&T bullet wall 2019

A portion of the exterior wall of Scott Hall that was shot up during the disturbance. The dorm was torn down in 2004. Portions of the wall are part of a reflecting pool at N.C. A&T in Greensboro, N.C., on Wednesday, May 9, 2019.

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Greensboro police stand guard on the edge of the N.C. A&T campus on May 23, 1969. Cooper Hall, an A&T dormitory, stands in the background.

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GREENSBORO — The 1960s started in the city when four black college students protested racial segregation by sitting down at a whites-only lunch counter.

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Greensboro police stand guard on the edge of the N.C. A&T campus on May 23, 1969. Cooper Hall, an A&T dormitory, stands in the background.

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This photo from the 1970 Ayantee, N.C. A&T's yearbook, shows North Carolina National Guard troops rushing toward Cooper Hall on May 23, 1969. Soldiers in the foreground are wearing gas masks to ward off the effects of smoke and tear gas.

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N.C. National Guard soldiers with rifles and gas masks stand outside of the Scott Hall dormitory at N.C. A&T on May 23, 1969.

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N.C. A&T students detained after the National Guard swept through the campus on May 23, 1969, are taken to be fingerprinted in downtown Greensboro. All students were released later that afternoon.

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N.C. National Guard soldiers roll through Greensboro in May 1969.

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The inside of a Scott Hall dormitory room in May 1969 after the North Carolina National Guard swept through the building looking for snipers and weapons.

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This 2004 photograph of a section of the outer wall of A&T's Scott Hall shows a bullet fragment buried inside the brick.

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The inside of a Scott Hall dormitory room in May 1969 after the North Carolina National Guard swept through the building looking for snipers and weapons. A bullet hole is visible in the wall above the bed.

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N.C. A&T students wait with their luggage to go home May 23, 1969, after National Guard soldiers swept through the campus earlier that day. A day earlier, A&T's president closed the school a week before the end of the semester.

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A&T’s graduation in 1969. A&T held commencement on June 1 as scheduled in Moore Gymnasium on campus. The local newspapers reported that there were “a record 530 graduates.” But many of the graduating class didn’t return to campus once they left early the month before.

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A memorial to Willie Grimes is on the N.C. A&T campus.

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A bullet-scarred section of Scott Hall was removed for safe-keeping in 2004 before N.C. A&T demolished the residence hall. Four sections of the western wall of Scott Hall were later turned into monoliths that flank a reflecting pool that sits on the site of the former dorm.

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A portion of the exterior wall of Scott Hall that was shot up in May 1969. The dorm was torn down in 2004. Portions of the wall are part of a reflecting pool at N.C. A&T in Greensboro, N.C., on Wednesday, May 9, 2019.

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Dorothy Clark (right) wipes a tear as the Class of 1969 was recognized during the N.C. A&T commencement at the Greensboro Coliseum May 11.

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Scenes from 1969: Shootout and National Guard at A&T

A&T May 1969 National Guard

N.C. National Guard soldiers with rifles and gas masks stand outside of the Scott Hall dormitory at N.C. A&T on May 23, 1969.

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A&T student hands up

In this photo from the 1970 edition of the Ayantee, N.C. A&T's yearbook, a student identified as Eddie Evans leaves an A&T dorm with his hands behind his head on May 23, 1969.

A&T May 1969 Scott Hall

The inside of a Scott Hall dormitory room in May 1969 after the North Carolina National Guard swept through the building looking for snipers and weapons.

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A&T National Guard Cooper Hall

This photo from the 1970 Ayantee, N.C. A&T's yearbook, shows North Carolina National Guard troops rushing toward Cooper Hall on May 23, 1969. Soldiers in the foreground are wearing gas masks to ward off the effects of smoke and tear gas.

A&T May 1969 students outside

N.C. A&T students wait with their luggage to go home May 23, 1969, after National Guard soldiers swept through the campus earlier that day. A day earlier, A&T's president closed the school a week before the end of the semester.

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A&T May 1969 National Guard

N.C. National Guard soldiers roll through Greensboro in May 1969.

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A&T National Guard on campus

This photo from the 1970 edition of the Ayantee, N.C. A&T's yearbook, shows N.C. National Guard soldiers on the A&T campus in May 1969.

A&T May 1969 student in dorm

Roosevelt Ferguson, an N.C. A&T student from Winston-Salem, leaves his university dorm with his clothing and personal belongings on May 24, 1969. Ferguson told a photographer that nothing appeared to be missing from his dorm room, which apparently hadn't been entered by police or the National Guard. 

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A&T May 1969 students detained

N.C. A&T students detained after the National Guard swept through the campus on May 23, 1969, are taken to be fingerprinted in downtown Greensboro. All students were released later that afternoon.

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A&T May 1969 National Guard

N.C. National Guard troops line up on Bluford Street by the Holland Bowl on the N.C. A&T campus on May 23, 1969. Hines Hall is in the background.

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A&T May 1969 Scott Hall

The inside of a Scott Hall dormitory room in May 1969 after the North Carolina National Guard swept through the building looking for snipers and weapons.

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A&T May 1969 Scott Hall

The inside of a Scott Hall dormitory room in May 1969 after the North Carolina National Guard swept through the building looking for snipers and weapons. A bullet hole is visible in the wall above the bed.

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A&T May 1969 Greensboro police

Greensboro police stand guard on the edge of the N.C. A&T campus on May 23, 1969. Cooper Hall, an A&T dormitory, stands in the background.

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NC A&T 1969 graduation

A&T’s graduation in 1969. A&T held commencement on June 1 as scheduled in Moore Gymnasium on campus. The local newspapers reported that there were “a record 530 graduates.” But many of the graduating class didn’t return to campus once they left early the month before.

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Contact John Newsom at (336) 373-7312 and follow @JohnNewsomNR on Twitter.​

SOURCES

A glance at the sources used to produce this story:

• Newspaper accounts from May 1969 and thereafter in the Greensboro Daily News and the Greensboro Record, plus News & Record stories about Claude Barnes (1999), the Scott Hall dormitory (2004) and Willie Grimes (2006)

• “Trouble in Greensboro: A Report of an Open Meeting Concerning the Disturbances at Dudley High School and North Carolina A&T State University,” by the North Carolina State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1970)

• "Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom," by William H. Chafe (1980)

• "Walls that Bleed: The Story of the Dudley/A&T Uprising," a documentary film directed by Michael Anthony (2008; revised in 2012)

• "The Black Revolution on Campus," by Martha Biondi (2012)

• Interviews by News & Record staff writer John Newsom in April and May 2019

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A&T bullet wall 2019

A portion of the exterior wall of Scott Hall that was shot up during the disturbance. The dorm was torn down in 2004. Portions of the wall are part of a reflecting pool at N.C. A&T in Greensboro, N.C., on Wednesday, May 9, 2019.

N.C. A&T students detained after the National Guard swept through the campus on May 23, 1969, are taken to be fingerprinted in downtown Greensboro. All students were released later that afternoon.

This photo from the 1970 Ayantee, N.C. A&T's yearbook, shows North Carolina National Guard troops rushing toward Cooper Hall on May 23, 1969. Soldiers in the foreground are wearing gas masks to ward off the effects of smoke and tear gas.

N.C. National Guard soldiers roll through Greensboro in May 1969.

The inside of a Scott Hall dormitory room in May 1969 after the North Carolina National Guard swept through the building looking for snipers and weapons.

A portion of the exterior wall of Scott Hall that was shot up in May 1969. The dorm was torn down in 2004. Portions of the wall are part of a reflecting pool at N.C. A&T in Greensboro, N.C., on Wednesday, May 9, 2019.

The inside of a Scott Hall dormitory room in May 1969 after the North Carolina National Guard swept through the building looking for snipers and weapons. A bullet hole is visible in the wall above the bed.

N.C. National Guard soldiers with rifles and gas masks stand outside of the Scott Hall dormitory at N.C. A&T on May 23, 1969.

Greensboro police stand guard on the edge of the N.C. A&T campus on May 23, 1969. Cooper Hall, an A&T dormitory, stands in the background.

A bullet-scarred section of Scott Hall was removed for safe-keeping in 2004 before N.C. A&T demolished the residence hall. Four sections of the western wall of Scott Hall were later turned into monoliths that flank a reflecting pool that sits on the site of the former dorm.

This 2004 photograph of a section of the outer wall of A&T's Scott Hall shows a bullet fragment buried inside the brick.

A memorial to Willie Grimes is on the N.C. A&T campus.

Greensboro police stand guard on the edge of the N.C. A&T campus on May 23, 1969. Cooper Hall, an A&T dormitory, stands in the background.

A&T’s graduation in 1969. A&T held commencement on June 1 as scheduled in Moore Gymnasium on campus. The local newspapers reported that there were “a record 530 graduates.” But many of the graduating class didn’t return to campus once they left early the month before.

N.C. A&T students wait with their luggage to go home May 23, 1969, after National Guard soldiers swept through the campus earlier that day. A day earlier, A&T's president closed the school a week before the end of the semester.

Dorothy Clark (right) wipes a tear as the Class of 1969 was recognized during the N.C. A&T commencement at the Greensboro Coliseum May 11.

Willie Grimes' high school graduation photo.

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