- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with William Snider
- Creator:
- Snider, William D.
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1979-04-19
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Politics and government
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations
Race relations
Reporters and reporting--North Carolina--Greensboro
Newspapers
Social integration--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Snider, William D.
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Snider discusses the history of the Greensboro News and Record, including the editorial board and policy of the Greensboro Daily News in the 1950s and 1960s and the role of the press in the 1960 and 1963 demonstrations. He also describes the behavior of demonstrators and the police department, race relations and integration in Greensboro, the civil rights movement nationally, and the political climate of North Carolina.
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%3A124
- 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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