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Guilford County Black history, from A to Z | Local

February 7, 2021
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David Taylor, who in 1999 became the first Black fire chief in High Point.

U is for …

The first route of the Underground Railroad, a network of trails and hiding places that led fleeing slaves to the North, began in a cave near a creek on what is now the Guilford College campus. A slave from Guilford County, John Dimrey, was the first to follow the Underground Railroad to freedom in 1819.

Harmon A. Unthank, a co-founder of Warnersville, who became director of the People’s Five-Cent Savings Bank in Greensboro in 1886, making him the first Black bank director in the South.

V is for …

V is for Vincent. A recent acquisition on the desk of Stahle Vincent, who played for Dudley High School until 1968 and went on to quarterback for Rice University, at his office at Cone Denim White Oak Plant, on October 21, 2013, in Greensboro. Vincent got the Rice ball from a person who tracked him down and said he deserved it. Vincent was honored by Rice as part of the Owls 2013 Hall of Fame class. 



JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ, News & Record


Stahle Vincent, a three-sport star at Dudley High who became the first Black quarterback in the Southwest Conference in 1969. 

W is for …

Warnersville, Greensboro’s first suburb, which was developed near Ashe Street after the Civil War for recently freed, homeless and impoverished former slaves. Ezell Blair Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), a future sit-in participant, grew up in this community.

Alfreda Webb was the first African American woman licensed to practice veterinary medicine in the United States. But she never actually practiced, preferring to teach anatomy and coordinate the animal science program at N.C. A&T. She also was the first Black female member of the N.C. House of Representatives.

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