National Exhibition Venue International Civil Rights Center & Museum

Public Dialogues and Events
| November 8 – December 15, 2016

A UNCG student participates in the interactive portion of the exhibition.

The University of North Carolina Greensboro hosted a Mass Story Lab event titled "Learning from Listening," where visitors were encouraged to share stories on the impacts of incarceration in their lives.

A visitor reads UNCG's local contribution to the traveling exhibition.

An exhibition visitor listens to oral histories included in the interactive portion of the traveling exhibition.

A UNCG student watches a video as part of the local companion exhibit on the history of mass incarceration in North Carolina. UNCG focused their exhibition on "Voices from the Chain Gang." Visitors learned about how people convicted of minor crimes were sentenced by the courts to pound rocks and shovel dirt, eventually leading to the creation of North Carolina's highways.

“I was a correctional officer here in NC for 4 years. Then I was a jailer in TX for 3 years. I always tried to do the right thing despite what my fellow COs and jailers through because my father is an inmate here in NC. I know all it takes is one bad day to end up coming through that gate. A lot of COs don’t realize it easily could be them. Inmates are people.” — Anonymous Visitor

“Being black & being in America my greatest fear is the criminal justice system.” — Taylor C. Hawkins