- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Pat Patterson
- Creator:
- Patterson, Robert Tyrone, 1941-
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1979-07-17
- Subject:
- African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American college students--North Carolina--Greensboro
College students--North Carolina--Greensboro
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University
African American universities and colleges--North Carolina--Greensboro
Universities and colleges--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
Passive resistance--North Carolina--Greensboro
Nonviolence--North Carolina--Greensboro
Direct action--North Carolina--Greensboro
Congress of Racial Equality
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Picketing--North Carolina--Greensboro
Police--North Carolina--Greensboro
Police--North Carolina--Greensboro--Attitudes - People:
- Patterson, Robert Tyrone, 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 Robert Patterson describes how the first sit-ins occurred, events that led up to the formation of the Greensboro Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) chapter, and the key players involved. He explains strategies behind the CORE planning sessions, how demonstrations and pickets were carried out, and reactions on the part of the city police.
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%3A110
- 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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