- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Staff summary of desegregation in Greensboro, North Carolina
- Date of Original:
- 1959
- Subject:
- Segregation in education--United States
Race relations
School integration - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- reports
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This six-page document from the U.S. Civil Rights Commission is a staff summary of desegregation in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1959. Descriptions of Greensboro's demography, educational background, composition of the board of education, groups in support/opposition to desegregation, and the status of segregation in the community are included. In addition, the report contains summaries of Greensboro's initiation and implementation of school desegregation, and events aiding/hindering desegregation. The report was included in participant notebooks issued at the commission's 1959 National Conference of Public School Officials entitled "The Problems of Schools in Transition From the Educator's Viewpoint."
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/573
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- COPYRIGHT NOT EVALUATED. The copyright status of this item has not been fully evaluated and may vary for different parts of the item. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
- Extent:
- 8.5" x 11"
- Original Collection:
- http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/smithbenjaminlee/
RL.01210 Benjamin Lee Smith Papers
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
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