Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
About this resource
- Appropriate grades
- 6–12
- Subjects
- social studies (African Americans, North Carolina, United States history)
- Provider
- News-Record.com
- Special requirements
- RealPlayer or QuickTime may be used for the audio portions of the site.
Legal
This catalog record is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. This license applies to the content of this page only and does not apply to the referenced website.
This site contains almost 100 audio clips from dozens of hours of recordings with sit-in participants, with interviews from News & Record writer Jim Schlosser, and the Greensboro Public Library. Visitors to this site can hear how the original four participants planned the sit-ins. They will also hear the voice of Clarence "Curly" Harris, the manager of Woolworth's. George Roach, the mayor at the time, talks about how the city avoided violent incidents, such as those in Birmingham, Ala.
Several other features will give users a feel for the era and the significance of the sit-ins:
- A timeline, complete with historic photos.
- Historical photos and stories from the News & Record archives, with a photo from the first day of the sit-ins.
- A look at the Greensboro Public Library resources
- An electronic bulletin board, where visitors can write what they think - or, for many, remember - about the sit-ins and where they can see what other people said.
- Extensive links to other civil rights and black history sites, including the NAACP and the National Civil Rights Museum.
The "Key Players" section will take you to a list of who was involved at the time from colleges. It includes a list of relevant audio clips.
