- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Louise Smith by William Chafe
- Creator:
- Smith, Louise Covington
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chafe, William H., 1942-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1973-02-09
- Subject:
- Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations
Protest movements--United States
Greensboro (N.C.)--History--20th century
Segregation in education--United States
School integration
Segregation
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- interviews
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- This February 9, 1973, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Louise Smith primarily documents Ms. Smith's involvement in school desegregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. Topics include her expectations for school desegregation; her friends' thoughts on desegregation; educating blacks about freedom of choice assignment plans; Josephine Boyd's attendance of Greensboro Senior High; the state of local black schools; and the loss of the initial hope after the Brown decision. Smith also discusses what makes Greensboro different from other North Carolina cities; the YWCA's involvement in the community; the leadership role of women in the movement; the protests of segregated city pools; her impression of the '60 and '63 sit-ins; pastors Charlie Bowles and Harold Hipps; her husband hiring a black secretary; business powers in Greensboro; and the role of the newspaper.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/772
- 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:
-
