Fifty plus years after February 1, 1960 when four North Carolina Agricultural & Technical State University (NC A&T) freshmen sat down at Woolworth lunch counter projecting Greensboro, NC onto the national and international stage with the sit-in movement, members of Greensboro business organizations working through the unelected University of North Carolina (BOG) and Erskine Bowles UNC-General Administration (GA), and University of North Carolina-Greensboro repackaged Jim Crow for the 21st Century  re-established a dual system of education with the Joint School of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering at Gateway Research, slaved out NC A&T alleging economic development serving private interest at public expense

God Bless A&T Former five term Mayor of the burro of Middletown Robert G. Reid - the first black elected Mayor in PA - a member N.C. A&T's  1954 & 55 CIAA Boxing Championship team speaking at a NC A&T 2005 Hall of Frame induction press conference said ...I'm not going to tell you about winning a championship...I'm going to tell you what A&T did for me after sports ...I could after been in jail ... dead ...or in some dead end  job in Middletown ...God Bless A&T, God Bless A&T.  ...The role of sports in the education process is highly acclaimed  but undefined and maybe a personal experience  Open  Close