Civil Rights in Greensboro
Now available in a webpage. I found about this through UNCG's faculty and staff newsletter "Campus Weekly", which landed on my desk a half hour ago.
From their website:
"Greensboro VOICES provides access to a growing collection of oral interviews housed in the Greensboro Public Library and in the University Libraries of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The recordings, collected over the past thirty years, provide a rich resource for historical research concerning the Civil Rights Movement in the Greensboro area. The project will digitize audio recordings and transcripts of over 100 interviews collected by UNCG and the Greensboro Public Library."
I can't help but think this will be a fascinating resource for future generations who want to hear about Civil Rights events in Greensboro strait from the mouths of the folks who made it happen.
Comments
Yes, I would think that it would be a good source and I hope it continues right up to the present Woody since now I am coming to believe the players have reversed themselves. It seems it is now the Whites who have to assert themselves and apparently fight for their civil rights. That is if the exclusively Black Simkims PAC's threats both in writing and orally Thursday night are to be taken seriously. PAC members blantantly told the 6 White commissioners who voted to fire Willie Best that they can kiss their office goodby. I don't know whether to laugh or cry over this whole mess that is Greensboro/Guilford County politics. But, I think I will probably laugh since that is more in my nature.
By the way Kiddo, how close are you getting to the picture in spandex?
Posted by: Brenda Bowers | July 1, 2006 6:10 PM
Stupidity comes in every color of the rainbow, and then some it seems.
I'm with you, in that I will laugh at the folly's of man. Crying might be appropriate too, but it is much more unseemly by and large.
You by the way, have managed to make me blush! Patience, this is too nice a job to rush. :)
Posted by: Woody Cavenaugh | July 5, 2006 8:51 AM
I promise to be waiting and will keep wishing you the best. By the way, don't blush at anything this Old Broad says as at 65 I could probably be a grandmother to you. (Besides, the mind is still 30 and they didn't have spandex in my day. Dam!)
Posted by: Brenda Bowers | July 5, 2006 9:28 PM