- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Jibreel Khazan and Franklin McCain
- Creator:
- Khazan, Jibreel, 1941-
- Contributor to Resource:
- McCain, Franklin (Franklin Eugene), 1941-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1979-10-20
- Subject:
- Sit-ins--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
Nonviolence--North Carolina--Greensboro
Direct action--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civic leaders--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civic leaders--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American students--North Carolina--Greensboro
Students--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.) - People:
- Khazan, Jibreel, 1941-
McCain, Franklin, 1941-2014 - 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 and Franklin McCain primarily discuss the motivations, planning, strategies, participants, and activities of the 1960 sit-ins. The describe many of the specific community leaders, protest participants, negotiators, supporters, civil rights organizations, attorneys, and high school students involved on both sides of the desegregation issue in Greensboro. Khazan and McCain describe the formation of SNCC and their plans for urban renewal in Greensboro; they also comment on the backgrounds and personalities of themselves and the other two members of the "Greensboro Four," especially the pressures and effects of their February 1, 1960 sit-in at Woolworth's.
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%3A92
- 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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