Elizabeth Ann Parks Grinton

Elizabeth Ann Parks Grinton is a name well-known to those who attended Lincoln Heights Rosenwald School. Mrs. Grinton graduated from Lincoln Heights in the Class of 1935 before going on to Winston-Salem Teachers College and Columbia University.¹ She taught elementary grades in Wilkes County (and at her alma mater, Lincoln Heights) and was a pivotal member of the area's community. In 1984, Mrs. Grinton bravely stood before a bulldozer to save the school from demolition.² She also served as the executive director of the Lincoln Heights Recreation Board until her death in 2001.³ This exhibit explores the life and career of this astounding woman.

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[1] "Guide To Elizabeth Ann Parks Grinton Papers, 1931-2000, undated," Special Collections at Belk Library, accessed April 5, 2015, http://collections.library.appstate.edu/findingaids/ac623.

[2] Brenda Adams Dobbins, "Wilkes County Training Center/Lincoln Heights School, 1924-1968," (2015).

[3] Brenda Adams Dobbins, “Wilkes County Training Center.”