Tisdale, Geneva, 1933-
- Authoritative Name:
- Tisdale, Geneva, 1933-
- Biography:
- "Geneva Tisdale was born in South Carolina and moved to North Carolina in the 1940s. She began working at the F.W. Woolworth store on Elm Street in Greensboro in 1951 as a fountain girl. When the February 1, 1960, sit-in occurred, she was working the sandwich board. Tisdale was one of three Woolworth employees to be the first blacks served at the counter after it was desegregated. Tisdale retired from Woolworth's when the Greensboro stores closed, after forty-three years of service." --From Greensboro VOICES Biography, "Tisdale, Geneva" accessed 9 October 2008, http://library.uncg.edu/depts/archives/civrights/detail-bio.asp?bio=127
- Associated Subjects:
- Tisdale, Geneva, 1933-
- Archival Collections And Reference Resources:
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Oral history interview with Geneva Tisdale
- Creator:
- Tisdale, Geneva, 1933-
- Date of Original:
- 1988
- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)