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Civilities and Civil Rights

Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom

by William H. Chafe ยท 1981

ISBN: 0195029194 9780195029192

Category: History / General

Page count: 282

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.