- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Story of desegregation in Greensboro, NC
- Creator:
- Smith, Benjamin Lee
- Date of Original:
- 1959-03-05
- Subject:
- Segregation in education--United States
Race relations
School integration - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- speeches (compositions)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This transcript of a statement made by Greensboro school Superintendent Benjamin L. Smith to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 5, 1959, tells the history of school desegregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Smith details the educational achievements of the six African American students enrolled at previously all-white schools in 1957. He discusses the resolution in support of desegregation passed by the Greensboro School Board the day after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, as well as the resolution passed by the board in 1957 for assigning students to schools according to the state's Pearsall Plan. Smith concludes his statement by explaining why he feels desegregation was a success in Greensboro.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/611
- 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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