- 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:
- 1989-04-24
- 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 - People:
- Patterson, Robert Tyrone, 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 Robert Patterson describes events that led to the first sit-ins in 1960, demonstrations that followed, and who participated and why. He discusses the roles of Jesse Jackson and himself in CORE, and the long-term effects of the civil rights movement in 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%3A109
- 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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