GREENSBORO, N.C. — In honor of March being Women's History Month, the Greensboro History Museum celebrated women who have helped shape the city.
The program featured costumed interpreters who portrayed historic Greensboro women.
The special event helped attendees learn about those impacts, historical contributions and learn other fun facts.
Some of the women who were celebrated were Josephine Boyd, the first African American student at Greensboro Senior High School; Nancy Mangum, who wrote to the governor about food shortages during the Civil War and Frances Bonner, a basketball player who helped organize a movie theater boycott in 1937.
Living history: Pvt. First Class Elizabeth Johnson who served in WWII as part of the all-black, all-women 6888th Battalion. LISTEN:
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