- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Hobart Jarrett
- Creator:
- Jarrett, Hobart Sydney, 1915-2005
- Date of Original:
- 1980
- Subject:
- Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Discrimination in restaurants--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Civic leaders--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American clergy--North Carolina--Greensboro
Women social reformers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.) - People:
- Jarrett, Hobart Sydney, 1915-2005
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Oral history in which Hobart Jarrett primarily describes the efforts to desegregate the Woolworth's lunch counter and Meyer's Tea Room in Greensboro in the early 1960s. He describes his personal background, his role as chairman of the Greensboro Citizens Association and the group's activities, and details of negotiations with white merchants such as Mose Kiser of Guilford Dairy and Clarence Harris of Woolworth's. Other major topics include the role of specific members of the black community, especially Dr. W.L.T. Miller, George Simkins, Vance Chavis, and various ministers, as well as the role of women at Bennett College and Woman's College (now UNCG).
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://gateway.uncg.edu/islandora/object/oh%3A70
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Contributing Institution:
- Greensboro Public Library (Greensboro, N.C.)
- Rights:
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