- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- HRC to Urge Whites to Help Black Firms
- Creator:
- unknown
- Date of Original:
- 1977-02-10
- 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:
- This February 10, 1977 Greensboro Daily News article announces the Greensboro Human Relations Commission's plans to meet with government and community organizations to encourage them to patronize black-owned businesses. This action was largely in response to a report by Minority Business League member and local business owner, Richard Bowling, that his and other businesses suffer because of lack of support from local organizations. Bowling said whites don't patronize black businesses because "they aren't used to coming into the black community." He also notes that many blacks who now patronize white businesses feel they are "stepping back" if they use black-owned businesses. Human Relations Commission Executive Director Henry McKoy notes that many whites feel full equality has been achieved, when in actuality, many areas still warrant improvement. This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook on desegregation by Clarence "Curly" Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the 1960 sit-ins that spawned lunch counter sit-ins across the South and rejuvenated the civil rights movement.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/1916
- 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:
-
