- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Boyd Morris
- Creator:
- Morris, Robert Boyd, 1912-1995
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1986-12-09
- Subject:
- Civil rights demonstration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Mayfair Cafeteria (Greensboro, N.C.)
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Restaurateurs--North Carolina--Greensboro
Discrimination in restaurants--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
City council members--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Morris, Robert Boyd, 1912-1995
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 Boyd Morris describes his response to civil rights demonstrators at the Mayfair, his confrontation with Jesse Jackson, his reasons for not desegregating his restaurant, and the results of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on downtown businesses including ails of his years on the city council and as mayor of Greensboro.
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%3A106
- 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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