- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Cleo McCoy by William Chafe
- Creator:
- McCoy, Cleo
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chafe, William H., 1942-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1977-09-06
- Subject:
- Guilford College
Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations
Protest movements--United States
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
Segregation
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights demonstration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This transcript of a September 6, 1977, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Cleo McCoy primarily documents McCoy's experiences at North Carolina A&T State University during the 1950s and 1960s. He discusses veterans attending A&T in the 1950s; Governor Luther Hodges' visit to campus and Dr. Ferdinand Bluford's reaction; the Greensboro Four; post-sit-ins campus activities; William Gamble and Warmouth Gibbs' responses; A&T presidents being referred to as Uncle Toms; Jesse Jackson, Nelson Johnson, and Vincent McCullough; and the 1969 A&T/Dudley High School protest. Other topics include Randolph Blackwell running for office; civil rights discussions at Guilford College in the fifties; "outsiders" in the 1963 and 1969 protests; and James Farmer discouraging the role of clergy in the movement.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/747
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
- Original Collection:
- http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/chafe/
RL.00207 William Henry Chafe Oral History Collection
CRG - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Rights:
-
