The photos document teachers and students at CCCC during the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. This batch specifically highlights students in the cosmetology, computer technology, and business administration programs. The photos also have excellent descriptions, often including the names of the students and teachers. Be on the lookout as we add more photos to this collection over the next few months.
The first batch of photographs depicting student life and academics at Central Carolina Community College are now online. The photographs date from the 1960s to the 1990s and show primarily students studying agriculture, accounting, automotive mechanics, and broadcasting. This group of photographs was the first of many that we will be digitizing for Central Carolina, which is located in Sanford, North Carolina in Lee County.
To learn more about our partner Central Carolina Community College and see other materials they have had digitized, visit their partner page here. To view more photographs contributed by institutions all over the state, visit our Images of North Carolina collection.
Twenty-nine yearbooks and one history of the school from Central Carolina Community College are now available online. Among many other courses of study the school offers a veterinary medical technology program, which frankly have some of the best pictures of any of the yearbooks in the North Carolina College and University Yearbooks digital collection. In addition to the typical student portraits, these volumes also honor the non-human affiliates of the program, including many beloved cats and dogs, horses, cows and even a turtle or two. Here are some of my favorite images:
Thanks to our partners at Central Piedmont Community College, we now have five new scrapbooks from the school, spanning 1957-1992. This wide-ranging collection covers the practical nursing program, Phi Theta Kappa, the Student National Education Association, and the “Seminars on Asian Understanding” organized by Willimore “Cy” Hastings in 1971-1972. These scrapbooks include a diverse assortment of formats that give insight into the activities of CPCC students and faculty, and their interactions with the greater Charlotte community — and the world — over the course of nearly forty years.
The Seminars on Asian Understanding is a particularly interesting look at CPCC’s engagement with global politics and its efforts to foster cross-cultural communication. The series hosted American foreign policy experts and ambassadors from Vietnam, China, Thailand, New Zealand, Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, and Malaysia. Newspaper clippings and correspondence reveal Hasting’s work to organize the talks and public interest in the program, which drew attendees from the CPCC community and beyond.
See the rest of our Central Piedmont Community College materials here and our North Carolina Community College digital exhibit here.
We have just added new catalogs and yearbooks from Central Piedmont Community College. CPCC is currently the East Coast’s largest community college and was founded in 1963 when two colleges — Mecklenburg College and the Central Industrial Education center — merged. These yearbooks are from the years preceding the formation of CPCC and feature the students, staff, programs, and happenings of Carver Junior College and Mecklenburg College.
Mecklenburg College’s class of 1963 from the 1964 Echo.
Carver College was a predominantly Black junior college in Charlotte, North Carolina from 1949 to 1961. Carver College’s name was changed to Mecklenburg College in 1961, which it remained known as until its inclusion in the formation of CPCC in 1963.
These yearbooks capture scenes of students enjoying the campus and participating in events, organizations, and programs at the college and in the community.
Carver College students on their red ribbon winning parade float from the 1957 Carveran.
To learn more about Central Community College, visit their website or partner page here on DigitalNC.
The footer of a promotional flier on page 24 of the Jan-June 1969 scrapbook
The headline of an article describing support of the 1963 merger on page 18 of the 1963 scrapbook
A set of scrapbooks from our partner, Central Piedmont Community College, tells the story of CPCC starting with its origins in two different schools. CPCC, located in Charlotte, N.C., was created in 1963 from the merger of Mecklenburg College and the Central Industrial Education Center. Mecklenburg College, started in 1949 and originally called Carver College, was formed to serve Black veterans returning from WWII. The Central Industrial Education Center was started in 1959 and offered occupational training courses to adults in North Carolina. In 1963, the primarily Black Mecklenburg College and the primarily white Central Industrial Education Center merged to form the integrated Central Piedmont Community College. Documentation of both of the schools along with the merger can be seen in the first four scrapbooks of this collection, which span 1949-1963. Further scrapbooks cover 1963-1969 and cover the growth of CPCC as an institution.
A quote from an article about the introduction of computers into some cutting edge CPCC classes on page 28 of the Jan-June 1969 scrapbook
Included in these scrapbook are newspaper clippings from newspapers such as Charlotte Observer, and Charlotte News, event programs, faculty profiles, newsletters, promotional materials, and more. These scrapbooks are fully text searchable, and are a wonderful resource for tracking both the history of CPCC, and educational trends throughout North Carolina.
Click here to browse the scrapbooks. To view other materials from Central Piedmont Community College, including yearbooks and course catalogs, view their partner page. To learn more about CPCC, take a look at their website.
The quote in this post’s title comes from a student who participated in a 1989 protest at UNC-Chapel Hill, pictured below.
One of the most historic student protests in the United States happened on this day in 1960 right here in North Carolina. NC A&T students protested segregation by sitting down at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro. The first images in this post were taken at that event and come from the 1960 Ayantee yearbook. Other images come from schools in all parts of the state, and date from 1960 through 2012.
North Carolina college students have passionately protested a variety of issues and events over the years. Looking back through yearbooks and student newspapers, you’ll find editorials with strong opinions and photographs of students standing up and speaking out in this most public of ways. Today we’re sharing the tradition of protest by students over the years, as reported in their own media.
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College, 1960, Segregation (Woolworth’s Lunch Counter, Greensboro)
North Carolina Central University, 1960, Segregation (Woolworth’s Lunch Counter, Durham)
Cover of the 1986-1988 course catalog for Central Piedmont Community College
Thanks to this partner, we have just added to DigitalNCcourse catalogs from the college dating from it’s start in 1965 to 2002. Yearbooks dating from 1962-1964 from Mecklenburg College, an African American college in Charlotte that merged with the Central Industrial Education Center in Charlotte to form Central Piedmont Community College in 1964, are also now online.
Cover of the 1990-1992 course catalog for Central Piedmont Community College.
To view more materials from colleges and universities across North Carolina, visit here.
Several student yearbooks from Carver Junior College are now available on DigitalNC. Carver College was an African American junior college in Charlotte in the 1950s. The school offered college preparatory and vocational training as well as an accelerated high school. In the early 1960s Carver (briefly known as Mecklenburg College) combined with the Industrial Education Center to form Central Piedmont Community College.
This holiday season join us here on the blog for the 12 Days of NCDHC. We’ll be posting short entries that reveal something you may not know about us. You can view all of the posts together by clicking on the 12daysofncdhc tag. And, as always, chat with us if you have questions or want to work with us on something new. Happy Holidays!
Day 11: We’re Consultants
Secretarial Science student using a computer, contributed by Central Carolina Community College.
When NCDHC first began about 10 years ago, one of the main goals was to serve many institutions from a single location. The benefit of this approach means that resources and expertise can be consolidated. Instead of setting up a local digitization program, an organization can test the digitization waters by working with us before tackling their own projects, or they can choose to accomplish all of their digital collections goals through NCDHC.
We love to see institutions supporting their own digital collections almost as much as we dislike seeing people reinvent the wheel. We are happy to share advice on best practices in digitization, metadata, and hosting digital cultural heritage collections online. We can visit collections to look through materials and to talk about the commitment involved in a digital collection. We can present to stakeholders on the importance of thinking long term when beginning a digital collection.
Because of our statewide reach, we are able to help connect institutions who have similar or complementary goals. We frequently give advice related to applying for grants, particularly the State Library of North Carolina’s LSTA grants. If we don’t know the answer, we probably know someone who will. More than anything, we want to see successful and sustainable digital collections, even if they’re not on DigitalNC. So if you have a question or three, get in touch.
Check back on Monday as we reveal Day 12 of the 12 Days of NCDHC!
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