- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Sit-ins and how they changed us
- Creator:
- Snider, William D.
- Date of Original:
- 1983-05-15
- Subject:
- Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Segregation
Civil rights demonstrations - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- clippings (information artifacts)
scrapbooks - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In this May 15, 1983 article, William D. Snider, former editor of the Greensboro Daily News and the Greensboro Record, reflects on his experiences as a member of the Greensboro news media during the time of the 1960 sit-ins at Woolworth's. Snider notes that, initially, there was some debate of whether the sit-ins were even newsworthy, but that news of the sit-ins spread quickly throughout the country. Snider claims this particular movement starting in Greensboro with the city's five institutions of higher learning and credits Greensboro leaders with the movement's local roots, stating that they "believed in civility." This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the 1960 sit-ins. Also included are Harris' handwritten notes disputing some of the information in the Snider column, such as the effect that the sit-in movement had on businesses in downtown Greensboro.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/1717
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Extent:
- 9" x 11"
- Original Collection:
- http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=506
MSS141 Clarence Lee Harris Papers, circa 1916-1997
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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