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.