- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- W.C. informer [number 5]
- Creator:
- Woman's College Chapter of the Committee for North Carolina
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : Woman's College Chapter of the Committee for North Carolina
- Date of Original:
- 1946-03-17
- Subject:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Race relations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- periodicals
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- The fifth issue of W.C. Informer discusses an incident in Columbia, Tennessee, in which a black veteran and a white fought over an insult to the veteran's mother. Afterward, a group of fifty to seventy-five whites stormed the jail and roamed the streets of the "negro district". Four police officers were shot by a black citizen, resulting in the subsequent arrests of approximately one hundred black persons, two of whom were shot and killed while in custody. This incident, which became known as the Columbia Race Riot, also allegedly involved looting and shootings by highway patrol officers. Several officers were tried, but not convicted; three black defendants were convicted, but two of the convictions were overturned due to lack of evidence. The newsletter urges students to write the U.S. Attorney General demanding an investigation.The newsletter also discusses a pending atomic energy bill and includes a quote from Abraham Lincoln on race relations and the effects of "dehumanizing the Negro."W.C. Informer was a publication of the Woman's College Chapter of the Committee for North Carolina, an affiliate of the Southern Conference on Human Welfare (SCHW)located at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. SCHW was at the forefront of early civil rights and social justice issues.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/2167
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
- Extent:
- 8.5" x 14"
- Original Collection:
- CRG
UA108.2 University Archives Subject Files - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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