- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Jo Spivey
- Creator:
- Spivey, Jo Jones, 1917-2003
- Publisher:
- Greensboro Public Library Oral History Project, Greensboro Public Library
- Date of Original:
- 1979-05-30
- Subject:
- Reporters and reporting--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Greensboro
School integration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civic leaders--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Spivey, Jo Jones, 1917-2003
- 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 Jo Spivey primarily discusses her role as a news reporter in covering the civil rights activities in Greensboro and provides details of activities from the February 1, 1960 sit-in through the demonstrations in the summer of 1963; she also describes harassment she received as a result of covering these events. Spivey provides specifics of the desegregation of locals, schools, the golf course, lunch counters and restaurants, hospitals, and city council; she compares race relations in Greensboro during the 1960s and 1970s; describes community leaders, organizations, ad hoc committees, and political figures; and discusses the May 1969 shootout at North Carolina A&T.
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%3A126
- 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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