- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with David Morehead by William Chafe
- Creator:
- Morehead, David W.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chafe, William H., 1942-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1974-12-19
- Subject:
- Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Greensboro (N.C.)--History--20th century
Segregation in education--United States
School integration
Segregation
Civil rights demonstrations
Race relations
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 transcript of a December 19, 1975, interview conducted by William Chafe with David Morehead primarily documents Morehead's role at the Hayes-Taylor YMCA in Greensboro, North Carolina, and his involvement in the civil rights movement. Topics include selling memberships for the YMCA; becoming executive director; the separation between the Hayes-Taylor YMCA and the all-white Central YMCA; integration of the Hayes-Taylor YMCA; the YMCA's interaction with the Susie B. Dudley YWCA, and Caesar Cone's effort to combine the two organizations. He also shares his opinion of Caesar Cone and his role in Greensboro and the city's race relations. Morehead also recalls his involvement in school desegregation efforts, including offering the YMCA as a meeting place; providing a safe haven for the sit-in participants; the roles of Jesse Jackson, William Thomas, and Edward Zane; the formation of the Human Relations Commission; being forced by A&T president Ferdinand Bluford to move an event at which blacks and whites would have eaten together in the dining hall; the closing of community pools because of desegregation; Spencer Love purchasing the Windsor pool and his family's involvement in Greensboro race relations; the generation gap in the black community; the role of churches in the desegregation movement; integration of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce; Hal Sieber and Mike Fleming; and the Greensboro Citizens Association. Other topics include integrated neighborhoods in Greensboro in the 1940s; an incident in which white teenagers bullied Morehead and his mother's confrontation of an adult bystander; his desire to be a part of racial change in Greensboro; segregated businesses in Greensboro; his brother's career at Burlington Industries and Morehead's attempt to gain employment there; his reasons for not running for office; and hosting evangelist Tom Skinner in Greensboro.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/778
- 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:
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