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Ann Dearsley-Vernon

Gender: Female

Ethnicity: Caucasian

Biographical/Historical note: Ann Dearsley-Vernon was born outside of London, England, in 1938. Her family moved to Scarsdale, New York, when she was a child and eventually settled in Raleigh, North Carolina, where she graduated from Broughton High School. Dearsley then attended Woman's College of the University of North Carolina (now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro), where she was one of three white WC students to participate in the Woolworth sit-ins of February 1960.

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Item thumbnail image Ann Dearsley Reviews Lunch Counter Strike
Date: February 12, 1960
By: Ann Dearsley-Vernon
From: Carolinian
This February 12, 1960, article from The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (WCUNC), consists of ...
Item thumbnail image Oral History Interview with Ann Dearsley-Vernon by Betty Carter
Date: May 21, 2007
By: Ann Dearsley-Vernon
From: Institutional Memory Oral History Project
This May 21, 2007, oral history interview conducted by Betty Carter primarily documents Ann Dearsely-Vernon's recollections of her time at Woman's College (now UNCG) from 1956 to 1960. Of particular n...