Overview

The Junior League of Greensboro has been a driving force in building Greensboro into a better community.  Here is our story.

The year was 1926. Clara Bow had the “look,” Paul Whiteman had the “sound,” Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald were a “sensation,” and a young airmail pilot named Lindbergh was making a name for himself.

Young ladies of the day were breaking out into the world in shortened hemlines, flapper beads, and a new sense of daring.

Greensboro was in the midst of a boom that would see its population move from 19,000 in 1920 to over 53,000 in 1930.

It was to this climate of growth and change that the young Kathleen Price (later Mrs. Joseph M. Bryan) brought word of a new organization. Friends she had been visiting in other cities in the South were involved in “Junior Leagues.”

On May 26, 1926, Miss Price, her nine book club friends, and a selected group of 24 more young women met in the O. Henry Hotel’s Blue Room and organized the Greensboro Charity League. Its purpose was the giving of public service to worthy causes and the raising of money for such interests.

The Greensboro Charity League became the Junior League of Greensboro on March 5, 1928, when it was accepted by the National Junior League.