- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Frank O. Sherrill Jr.
- Creator:
- Sherrill, Frank Odell, 1922-1983
- Date of Original:
- 1980
- Subject:
- Restaurateurs--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Picketing--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Discrimination in restaurants--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Sherrill, Frank Odell, 1922-1983
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963
Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968 - 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 Frank Odell Sherrill primarily recalls the demonstrations and pickets that took place outside of the S&W Cafeteria and the effects it had on the business. He explains the company's policy for not serving blacks, some specific incidents that took place, the efforts of Armistead Sapp to keep the cafeteria segregated, and the efforts of the Kennedys to accomplish desegregation.
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%3A120
- 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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