- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Warren Ashby by William Chafe
- Creator:
- Ashby, Warren
- Contributor to Resource:
- Chafe, William H., 1942-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
- Date of Original:
- 1974-10-03
- Subject:
- Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations
Protest movements--United States
Greensboro (N.C.)--History--20th century
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Segregation in education--United States
School integration
Segregation
Civil rights demonstrations
Race relations--North Carolina--Greensboro
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 an October 3, 1974, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Warren Ashby primarily documents Ashby's membership with the Greensboro Community Fellowship and recollections of racial activism in the city. Ashby talks about the Greensboro School Board's actions after 1954's Brown v. Board of Education decision and statewide reactions, including newspaper coverage and the Pearsall Plan. He discusses the formation of the Greensboro Community Fellowship; meetings with McNeill Smith and North Carolina A&T University administrators during the 1963 sit-ins; desegregation of state universities; and activists in the community. Ashby also talks about members of the Greensboro Community Fellowship; Woman's College's response to the 1960 sit-ins; white participation in the sit-ins; polarization between the black and white communities in the late sixties; and the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce's response to racial activism.
- Metadata URL:
- http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/CivilRights/id/786
- 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:
-
