- Collection:
- WSB-TV Newsfilm Collection
- Title:
- WSB-TV newsfilm clip of response to the African American civil rights demonstrations in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960 February
- Creator:
- WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)
- Date of Original:
- 1960-02
- Subject:
- African Americans--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Police--North Carolina--Greensboro
Discrimination in restaurants--North Carolina--Greensboro
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Stores, Retail--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American college students--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American men--North Carolina--Greensboro
Signs and signboards--North Carolina--Greensbor
Race relations - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- moving images
news
unedited footage - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this silent WSB newsfilm clip from February 1960, local residents in Greensboro, North Carolina react to the recent lunch counter sit-ins at the Woolworth's store.
On February 1, 1960, four African American students at North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat at the lunch counter at the Woolworth's store and refused to leave when they were denied service. This sit-in sparked other lunch counter sit-ins around the state and eventually around the country. Many younger civil rights activists responded enthusiastically to the nonviolent, direct action tactics embodied in the sit-ins. In response to the surge of student activism, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) hosted a student conference in April at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina; during this meeting, the participants formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC played a central roll in the Civil Rights movement for the next several years. By the fall of 1961, every Southern and border state had experienced sit-ins, with over one hundred communities effected and over seventy thousand individuals arrested throughout the country.
Title supplied by cataloger. - Local Identifier:
- Clip number: wsbn33562
- Metadata URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/id:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33562
- Digital Object URL:
- http://crdl.usg.edu/do:ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33562
- IIIF manifest:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/ugabma_wsbn_wsbn33562/presentation/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: wsbn33562, WSB-TV newsfilm clip of response to the African American civil rights demonstrations in Greensboro, North Carolina, 1960 February, WSB-TV newsfilm collection, reel 0747, 45:09/46:25, Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection, The University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 clip (about 1 mins., 16 secs.): black-and-white, silent ; 16 mm.
- Original Collection:
- Original found in the WSB-TV newsfilm collection.
- Contributing Institution:
- Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection
- Rights:
-
