- 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:
- 1990-06
- Subject:
- Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Reporters and reporting--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation in education--North Carolina--Greensboro
School integration--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race riots--North Carolina--Greensboro
Black Panther Party
Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) - 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 interview with Jo Spivey in which she primarily discusses race relations in Greensboro throughout the 1950s and 1960s, especially as they related to her career at the Greensboro News and Record. She describes her personal relationships with blacks, school desegregation and the impact of the Brown decision, the Feb 1, 1960 sit-in at Woolworth and how she came to be there, the 1969 riot at North Carolina A&T, threats she received, and her impressions of the Black Panthers and Ku Klux Klan. Spivey also discusses other colleagues at the Record and policies of the newspaper.
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%3A127
- 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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