It’s the only museum worth visiting in Greensboro is pretty good. The third floor has an exhibit on the relationship between freedom and democracy, with a focus on the Civil Rights Movement. It also has a mock-up town square with historical buildings around it showing how people lived during Taft’s presidency.
The second floor has historical artifacts going back tens of thousands of years to the original people who lived in the area. But it was only two display cases later that the wagon train was brought in. Thousands of European descendants started settling in Greensboro in the mid-18th century driving the natives away. In the century that followed, America declared independence and fought a civil war. In the 1860s, Greensboro residents had Peace Meetings to reconcile the differences between those who supported the Unionists and Confederates.
Another century later in the 1960s the Civil Rights Movement was in full swing. An original section of the lunch counter at the Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter is on display.
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