Black Meetings and Tourism

July/Aug 2013

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•pg_30-43_ICI__BMT_pg3-58 8/12/13 8:48 PM Page 36 For more Fun & Games" try the ArtQuest – an art gallery for children. Or head to the Richard Petty Museum just South of Greensboro. Seagrove is a great place to experience traditional North Carolina pottery. There are museums galore in Greensboro including; the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, the Natural Science Center of Greensboro, Animal Discovery Zoological Park, and the Greensboro Children's Museum. An African-American Tour Itinerary starts with a stop at Guilford College campus, best known as a hiding place for runaway slaves in the days of the Underground Railroad. Then it's off to historic downtown Greensborough and the famous F.W. Woolworth Store where four North Greensboro International Civil Rights Center and Museum Carolina A&T students staged a sit-in back amusement facility with miniature golf, water bumper boats in 1960 that served as a catalyst for the Civil Rights Movement. The site is now the aforementioned International Civil Rights and go-carts. If you arrive between Memorial Day and Labor Day head Center and Museum. Other notable places to include are the Greensboro to Wet'n Wild Emerald Pointe Water Park, the largest in the Historical Museum, the Greensboro Cultural Center, the state with 36 water rides and attractions. 36 B M & T ••• July/August 2013 ••• www.blackmeetingsandtourism.com

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