- Collection:
- Greensboro Voices: Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality struggles
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Geneva Tisdale
- Creator:
- Tisdale, Geneva, 1933-
- Date of Original:
- 1988
- Subject:
- Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American women--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
Passive resistance--North Carolina--Greensboro
Direct action--North Carolina--Greensboro
Nonviolence--North Carolina--Greensboro
F.W. Woolworth Company--Employees
Women food service employees--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race relations
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century - People:
- Tisdale, Geneva, 1933-
- 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 Geneva Tisdale recalls the Feb. 1, 1960 sit-in, the larger crowds during the following days, and the eventual shut down of the counter. She recounts the day the counter first re-opened to serve blacks and whites, and her experience as one of the first three black customers to be served.
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%3A137
- 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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