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Civilities and civil rights

Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black struggle for freedom

By William Henry Chafe

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Publish Date

1980

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Language

eng

Pages

359

Description:

"The 'sit-ins' at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro launched the passive resistance phase of the civil rights revolution. This book tells the story of what happened in Greensboro ; it also tells the story in microcosm of America's effort to come to grips with our most abiding national dilemma--racism"--Cover, p. [4].