- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Two bucked customs before sit-ins
- Creator:
- Schlosser, Jim
- Date of Original:
- 1985-02-01
- Subject:
- Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations
Segregation - 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 February 1, 1985 article published in Greensboro News & Record, staff writer Jim Schlosser reports on one of two downtown Greensboro businesses that were already integrated before the 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins. White entrepreneur Robert S. "Bob" Jones operated Bob Jones Sandwich Bar two blocks away from the downtown Greensboro Woolworth store. Jones' restaurant was integrated six years prior to the sit-ins and Jones claims black and white people got along well there. Jones stated he would have likely done only half the business he did had his shop been segregated and he credited the thriving integrated business to being able to retire at age 55. Also mentioned is Lane Drug Store, which integrated six months prior to the sit-ins. This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the1960 sit-ins.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/1840
- 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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