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<item>leverett-int</item>
<coll>greensborovoices</coll>
<repo>ncgu</repo>
<public>yes</public>
<dc_title>Oral history interview with George Leverett</dc_title>
<dc_creator>Leverett, George H.</dc_creator>
<dc_subject>Police--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Men, White--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African Americans--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights movements--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Civil rights workers--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Passive resistance--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Direct action--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Nonviolence--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Segregation--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Race discrimination--North Carolina--High Point</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>High Point (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century</dc_subject>
<dc_subject>Race relations</dc_subject>
<dc_subject_personal>Leverett, George H.</dc_subject_personal>
<dc_description>Oral history in which George Leverett discusses his role as police officer during the early 1960s in High Point. He explains the tactics of demonstrators and the responses from the police. He also discusses expectations of the department and how this affected their responses to the initial demonstrations.</dc_description>
<dc_description>The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata.</dc_description>
<dc_publisher>Greensboro, N.C. : University Libraries, University of North Carolina at Greensboro</dc_publisher>
<dc_contributor>University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro</dc_contributor>
<dc_contributor>Greensboro Voices Collection (University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries)</dc_contributor>
<dc_date>2006</dc_date>
<dc_type>Oral histories</dc_type>
<dc_type>Transcripts</dc_type>
<dc_identifier>http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/civrights/detail-iv.asp?iv=87</dc_identifier>
<dc_source>Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library</dc_source>
<dc_relation>Forms part of online collection: Greensboro Voices.</dc_relation>
<dc_coverage_temporal>1979-04-30</dc_coverage_temporal>
<dc_coverage_spatial>High Point (N.C.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<dc_coverage_spatial>Guilford County (N.C.)</dc_coverage_spatial>
<upd>20090526 204847</upd>
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