- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Jibreel Khazan
- Creator:
- Khazan, Jibreel, 1941-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1980-12-04
- Subject:
- Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American college students--North Carolina--Greensboro
College students--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
African American universities and colleges--North Carolina--Greensboro
Congress of Racial Equality
Bennett College (Greensboro, N.C.)
Arrest--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Khazan, Jibreel, 1941-
Jackson, Jesse, 1941- - 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 Jibreel Khazan discusses the objectives and strategies of the demonstrations of 1960-1963, including the circumstances of the February 1960 sit-ins at Kress and Woolworth and subsequent negotiations. He also describes his involvement in student government at A&T and in the local chapter of CORE, and provides details about the group's history, leaders, and actions. Other subjects include the role of Jesse Jackson, desegregation of the Hot Shoppes, incarceration of protesters at the polio hospital, and Bennett College.
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%3A75
- 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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