Word: greensboro
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BARBARA W. VETTERLEIN Greensboro...
Under these laws, without court pressure, three cities (Winston-Salem, Charlotte, Greensboro) integrated the Deep South's first eleven Negro pupils in the fall...
...North Carolina, where token school integration (eleven pupils in three cities) began two years ago without even a court fight, N.A.A.C.P. groups sued for admission of 14 Negroes in token-integrated Greensboro and Charlotte...
...school integration may well be hastened by industrial integration. In Winston-Salem, Western Electric has hired Negro machinists. In Charlotte, Douglas Aircraft employs Negro engineers and draftsmen. In Greensboro, where Burlington Industries (textiles) recently took on a Negro chemist, a survey of 402 firms showed that 53 intend to hire strictly on the basis of merit, regardless of race; another 114 said they will hire on merit alone for some jobs. For the Deep South this represents progress. Said one industrialist: "No, I do not have an integrated plant. But check me in a year-the answer may be different...
...York, Chicago, Washington, Portland, Ore. and Shreveport, La.), only two remain within the national organization-in Chicago and New York. Despite such signs of setback, the mood of the delegates was hopeful. "After all," said the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Hugh Dolan of St. Benedict's Church in Greensboro, N.C., whose parish is one of the few in the South with integrated parochial schools, "the Gospel principle of love is here to stay, and the segregationists can't do anything about it." The conference set up an interim committee (six priests, one nun and 15 laymen and women...