- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Was city progressive? No, says Chafe
- Creator:
- Jones, Abe D., Jr.
- Date of Original:
- 1980
- Subject:
- Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Greensboro Massacre, Greensboro, N.C., 1979
Massacres--North Carolina--Greensboro
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:
- This 1980 Greensboro Record article by Abe Jones reviews historian William Chafe's newly published book about the civil rights movement in Greensboro, Civilities and Civil Rights. Jones writes that Chafe spent eight years researching and writing the book and that many of those interviewed for the book have commended Chafe for his work. Even so, Jones warns that many Greensboro citizens will be displeased with Chafe's argument that the city only took action on civil rights after it came under pressure and that Greensboro's aura of progressiveness is a myth. Jones gives a brief summary of the book and Greensboro's racial history and also makes reference to the murders of five Communist Workers Party members at the Death to the Klan march on November 3, 1979. He concludes by saying that Chafe's book, while not perfect, is "a highly readable and essential book for anyone who wants to understand this community and the civil rights movement." This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook about the twentieth anniversary of the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the sit-ins.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/1828
- 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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