- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Sarah Outterbridge
- Creator:
- Outterbridge, Sarah Jones
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1982-07-24
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Congress of Racial Equality
African American civic leaders--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civic leaders--North Carolina--Greensboro
Picketing--North Carolina--Greensboro
Discrimination in public accommodations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Discrimination in restaurants--North Carolina--Greensboro
Arrest--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Outterbridge, Sarah Jones
Jones, Marion B., 1918-
Brandon, Lewis A., 1939-
Cox, B. Elton (Benjamin Elton), 1931-2011
Thomas, William A., 1943- - 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 Sarah Outterbridge primarily discusses her experiences with CORE, including its strategies, a training workshop, and the role of local chapter leaders such as her father Rev. Marion Jones, Bill Thomas, Lewis Brandon, Wendell Scott, her sister Betty, and B. Elton Cox. She provides many details of the 1962-63 picketing campaign of the movie theatres, S&W cafeteria, and McDonald's, including the November 1962 mass arrests that resulted in her prolonged incarceration at the old polio hospital.
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%3A107
- 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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