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Box 2

 Container

Contains 5 Results:

Scrapbook 1: Sit/In, February 1, 1960, F.W. Woolworth, Greensboro, NC, 1957-1985

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSS 0141- Series 6- File Folder 1
Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, newspaper articles, a 1985 Woolworth menu, and a typescript by Harris. Chapters 1 to 14 of the typescript include a chronology of the events that occurred at the Greensboro Woolworth store from February 1, 1960 to July 26, 1960. In chapters 15 to 20, Harris writes about the myriad responses to desegregation of the lunch counter; his own participation; legal, ethical and economic aspects of the sit-ins; and long-term results. In chapter 21 Harris discusses why the...
Dates: 1957-1990

Scrapbook 2: Sit/In, February 1, 1960, Woolworth, Greensboro, NC, 1963-1980

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 2-3
Identifier: MSS 0141- Series 6- File Folder 2-3
Scope and Contents

Contains editorials, magazine and newspaper articles, comments by Harris, and an undated flyer urging the black community to boycott white businesses during the blind workers strike at the Industries of the Blind, October 1970. Subjects of the articles include race relations, integration, economics, low-income white Americans, and the President's Commission on Civil Disorders.

Dates: 1957-1990

Scrapbook 3: Desegregation, 1971-1975

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 4
Identifier: MSS 0141- Series 6- File Folder 4
Scope and Contents

Contains magazine and newspaper articles. Subjects include Andrew Young, busing, the civil rights movement, desegregation, integration, discrimination, the 1960 sit-ins, and racial progress.

Dates: 1957-1990

Scrapbook 4: Desegregation, 1976-1979

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 5-6
Identifier: MSS 0141- Series 6- File Folder 5-6
Scope and Contents

Contains magazine and newspaper articles. Subjects include Alex Haley and the Roots television program, the social and economic conditions of black Americans, racism, desegregation, the Duke University Oral History Program, James Baldwin, Jimmy Carter, protest marchers, the National Guard/NCA& T confrontation of 1969, the "Regents of University of California v. Allan Bakke" Supreme Court decision, the "Steelworkers v. Weber" Supreme Court decision, and Warmoth Thomas Gibbs.

Dates: 1957-1990

Scrapbook 5: Sit In, 20 Year Anniversary, 1979-1980

 File — Box: 2, Folder: 7
Identifier: MSS 0141- Series 6- File Folder 7
Scope and Contents

Contains magazine and newspaper articles, and some comments by Harris. Subjects include Andrew Young, the Klan/Communist Workers Party 1979 confrontation in Greensboro, race relations and race riots, renewal of the civil rights movement, the 20th anniversary of the 1960 sit-ins, and Dr. William H. Chafe.

Dates: 1957-1990