- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Ima Edwards
- Creator:
- Edwards, Ima, 1932-2003
- Date of Original:
- 1988
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
Passive resistance--North Carolina--Greensboro
Direct action--North Carolina--Greensboro
Nonviolence--North Carolina--Greensboro
F.W. Woolworth Company--Employees
Women food service employees--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - People:
- Edwards, Ima, 1932-2003
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history in which Ima Edwards describes her observations of the Woolworth's sit-ins as an employee at the bakery counter. She briefly discusses the first students to come in, the subsequent rise in number of supporters, action of klansmen, Woolworth manager Curly Harris, and the closing and eventual reopening of the lunch counter.
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. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A37
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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