- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- North Carolina - Greensboro: Hal Sieber Interviewee
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dent, Thomas C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-01-26
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Segregation
Economics
Education
Race relations
Religion
Universities and colleges - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
United States, North Carolina, Orange County, Chapel Hill, 35.9132, -79.05584 - Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews Hal Sieber in Greensboro, North Carolina. Sieber talks about how Greensboro has grown and changed over the years. It has become more multi-cultural and there has been an influx of industry. Civil rights work has historically been part of the city, including an African American man named Benson winning his freedom from slavery in federal court there in the early 1800s. He talks about the influence of Quakers in the area. Warmersville was established as an African American planned community after the Civil War. Judge Albion Tourgee authored the book A Fool's Errand about Greensboro in the late 1800s. He was run out of town and went on to become one of the authors of the Plessy v. Ferguson brief. Sieber outlines some of the prominent figures of the 1950s in Greensboro, including George Simkins and James Tonkins. He discusses the NAACP's work locally. Locals Al [Webb?] and B.J. Battle went on to work for the NAACP nationally. He discusses the Greensboro Sit-ins and Jesse Jackson's work there, which led to outsiders coming to demonstrate as well. Businessman Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles and Allen Wannamaker of the Chamber of Commerce encouraged the chamber to help bring about change in the community. Sieber was asked to come to Greensboro from Chapel Hill based on his role as Public Relations Director of the North Carolina Heart Association to work with the Chamber of Commerce. He talks about his work in race relations and community development. He contrasts Greensboro with Chapel Hill, Wilmington, Durham, Raleigh, and Winston-Salem. He also talks about the current state of race relations in the city and the role the colleges have played in the city's development.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53903
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
-
