Voicing Observations in Civil Rights and Equality Struggles

Additional Resources

LINKS

Greensboro Organizations and History

Greensboro Historical Museum
Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement, Greensboro News and Record
Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission
International Civil Rights Center & Museum
North Carolina A&T State University
The Lunch Counter," Smithsonian National Museum of American History

Civil Rights Oral History websites

Atlanta in the Civil Rights Movement, ARCHE
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute Online
Civil Rights Documentation Project, The University of Southern Mississippi
Civil Rights in Mississippi Digital Archive, The University of Southern Mississippi
Civil Rights Oral History Interviews, Washington State University

FOR FURTHER READING

General History

Bermanzohn, Sally Avery. Through Survivors' Eyes: From the Sixties to the Greensboro Massacre. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2003.

Chafe, William H. Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.

Hairston, Otis L., Jr. Greensboro, North Carolina. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishers, 2003.

Sieber, H.A. Holy Ground: Significant Events in the Civil Rights-Related History of the African-American Communities of Guilford County, North Carolina, 1771-1995. Greensboro, NC: Tudor Publishers, Inc., 1995.

Greensboro Sit-ins

Channing, Steven A., et al. February One (videorecording). Durham, NC: Video Dialog, Inc., 2003.

Gaillard, Frye. The Greensboro Four: Civil Rights Pioneers: A Profile. Charlotte, NC: Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2001.

Hansberry, Lorraine. The Movement: Documentary of Struggle for Equality. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964.

Wolff, Miles. Lunch at the Five & Ten. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1990.

Desegregation in Greensboro

Bagwell, William. School Desegregation in the Carolinas: Two Case Studies. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1972.

Bradley, Josephine Ophelia Boyd. “Wearing My Name: School Desegregation, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1954-1958,” PhD diss., Emory University, 1995.

Jacoway, Elizabeth, and David R. Colburn, eds. Southern Businessmen and Desegregation. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982.

Robinson, Anna. School Desegregation in Greensboro, 1954-1971. Greensboro, NC: Human Relations Commission, 1971.

May 1969 Disturbances

Black Citizens Concerned With Police Brutality. Trouble in Greensboro Continued: Police Brutality. Greenboro, NC: Black Citizens Concerned With Police Brutality, 1972.

Gottschall, Andrew W. Something's Got to Give: A Report on Twelve Attitudes Which Disable the Community, the Mythology of Disorderly Social Control. Greensboro, NC: Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, 1970.

Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. One Community: Some Background on Race Relations-Related Activities of the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce. Greensboro, NC: The Chamber, 1970.

North Carolina State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights. Trouble in Greensboro: A Report of an Open Meeting Concerning the Disturbances at Dudley High School and North Carolina A&T State University. Washington, DC: North Carolina Advisory Committee, 1970.

November 3, 1979 Incident

Bermanzohn, Paul C., and Sally Avery Bermanzohn. The True Story of the Greensboro Massacre. New York, NY: C. Cauce, 1980.

Brummel, Bill and Noah Mororwitz. The Greensboro Massacre (videorecording). Bill Brummel Productions, Inc. for the History Channel, 2000.

Institute for Southern Studies. The Third of November. Durham, NC: Institute for Southern Studies, 1981.

Rogers, Michael, et al. Greensboro Clash with the Ku Klux Klan (videorecording). New York: A&E Home Video, 2000.

Waller, Signe. Love and Revolution: A Political Memoir: People's History of the Greensboro Massacre, Its Setting and Aftermath. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002.

WGBH-Boston. 88 Seconds in Greensboro (videorecording). Boston: WGBH-TV, 1983.

Wheaton, Elizabeth. Codename GREENKIL: the 1979 Greensboro killings. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1987.