“[‘Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America’] sprang from [Kathleen] Belew’s research on a 1979 anti-Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, in which five members of the Communist Workers Party were murdered. A comment by one of the killers, who was among a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, stuck […]
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He shot Communists in Vietnam — why not in Greensboro?
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged bring the war home, communist workers party, greensboro nc, kathleen belew, vietnam war, white power on May 11, 2018 | Leave a Comment »
To Truman from ‘a town where we have no freedom’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged arlene williamson, D. M. Giangreco, dear harry, greensboro nc, harry truman, Kathryn Moore, nc racial history on October 16, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
“January 24, 1951 “Dear Mr. President, “How are you today? Fine I hope. I know you are wondering who is writing you. Well, I am a 15 year old Negro 10th Grade school girl. I am speaking for our History class since we are interested in the News and World Affairs…. “Every time war starts, […]
Student Protests over Time in NC Student Publications
Posted in DigitalNC, From the Stacks, History, Tar Talk, UNC History, tagged greensboro nc, north carolina on February 1, 2017 | Leave a Comment »
Today over on the DigitalNC blog we’re sharing 10 examples of North Carolina student protests, beginning with the historic Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in on this date in 1960 and continuing up to 2012. The North Carolina Digital Heritage Center is located in Wilson Library and works closely with the North Carolina Collection. We’ll occasionally be cross-blogging some […]
Archives yielded truths that grandparents wouldn’t
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged david neal, greensboro nc, nc civil rights, patriots of north carolina, scalawag magazine on November 28, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“The only time I tried to directly interrogate my grandparents on race was in the early 1990s. Having learned about Greensboro’s importance in the civil rights movement from a class in college, I asked them what they remembered about the years of school desegregation and the Woolworth sit-ins. There followed a long pause, punctuated by […]
Johnny Cash, Nietzsche discuss Fiestaware fetish
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged fiestaware, greensboro nc, johnny cash, kelly alexander, oxford american, replacements ltd on April 22, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“When I drove into the parking lot of Replacements, Ltd., on the outskirts of Greensboro, North Carolina, I thought of a saying that Rosanne Cash attributes to her father, Johnny, who was an avid collector of rugs, china, linens, and furniture: ‘Every possession is just a stick to beat yourself with.’ There are many, many […]
Monument to Gen. Greene thwarted by sectionalism
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged greensboro nc, guilford courthouse, memories of war, nathanael greene, nc whigs, thomas a chambers on February 24, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
“As early as 1848 local leaders had advocated [according to Greensboro’s Whig newspaper] ‘a Monument erected to the memory of [Gen. Nathanael] Greene, and devoted to the perpetual Union of these States.’ Who could object to such a monument, ‘connected as it is with the South?’ …. “Unlike the memorials at other Southern battlefields, that […]
Not everyone in Greensboro wanted to hear young MLK
Posted in On This Day, tagged bennett college, greensboro nc, martin luther king, nc civil rights on February 11, 2016 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1958: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., not yet 30 years old but already famous for having led the Montgomery bus boycott, pays his first visit to Greensboro. The local NAACP has invited King, but only black Bennett College will provide him a hall. He addresses two overflow crowds — morning […]
Zelda’s knickerbockers unappreciated by NC ‘yokelry’
Posted in Just A Bite, tagged cruise of the rolling junk, f. scott fitzgerald, greensboro nc, motor magazine, o. henry hotel, zelda fitzgerald on November 9, 2015 | Leave a Comment »
“About the time we crossed the white chalk line which divides Virginia from North Carolina, we became aware that some sort of dispute was taking place in the interior of the car….When we reached a town of some size we sought out the largest garage and demanded an inspection…. “[The mechanic] glanced in at the […]
Charlotte tips hat to ‘broad-minded’ Greensboro
Posted in On This Day, tagged battle of guilford courthouse, charlotte observer, greensboro nc, hippodrome auditorium, jamestown exposition on October 11, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1908: Greensboro opens a week of centennial festivities, including a re-enactment of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, a parade of Confederate veterans and the dedication of the 20,000-seat Hippodrome Auditorium. (The corrugated iron building, purchased from the Jamestown Exposition of 1907, is billed as second only to Madison Square Garden in […]
He paid high price for being a Communist
Posted in On This Day, tagged chapel hill nc, greensboro nc, john f. kennedy, junius scales, nc communist party, smith act on November 18, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
On this day in 1954: Junius Scales, head of the Communist Party in the Carolinas, is arrested by the FBI and charged under the 1940 Smith Act with membership in an organization advocating violent overthrow of the government. Scales, a longtime resident of Chapel Hill, is a scion of a prominent Greensboro family — both […]
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