- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Protesters to return to Greensboro to mark start of civil rights sit-in
- Creator:
- Green, Ann
- Date of Original:
- 1985-01-27
- 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 January 27, 1985 article published in The Raleigh News & Observer, staff writer Ann Green gives historical information about what happened during the Greensboro sit-ins at Woolworth's as well as how the Greensboro sit-ins served as a catalyst for similar demonstrations in fifty four other cities in nine different states. Sit-in participant David L. Richmond is interviewed for this story and admits he felt a lot of fear during the demonstrations. A customer of Woolworth's in 1985 is also interviewed for this story, as is Leon W. Herndon, who was a student at historically-black Shaw University at the time of the Greensboro sit-ins and was inspired to participate in demonstrations as a result. This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the sit-ins. Also included is Harris? handwritten response to the article disputing a claim in the story that police were slapping billy clubs against their palms on the first day.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/1751
- 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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