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[Letter from Clarence Harris to Tom Osborne]

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Title	[Letter from Clarence Harris to Tom Osborne]
Date	1983-08-10
Creator	Harris, Clarence Lee
Subject headings	Greensboro (N.C.) -- History -- 20th century Greensboro Sit-ins, Greensboro, N.C., 1960
Topics	Business desegregation and sit-ins, 1960 Greensboro government Business desegregation
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	This August 10, 1983 handwritten letter from Clarence "Curly" Harris to Greensboro City Manager Tom Osborne, introduces Osborne to Harris' perspectives on the Greensboro Woolworth sit-ins and the demise of the downtown retail trade from Harris' perspective as manager of the Woolworth store. In this letter Harris describes the effects of the sit-ins, the Woolworth operation in general, as well as later planning and development decisions made by the city of Greensboro that impacted his store. Harris notes that the Greensboro Woolworth store was one of the top stores in the chain in 1960, and that, by contract, he was "in complete control" of the store. He details losses in sales and profit due to the sit-ins, and goes on to discuss the impact of the adjacent city-county governmental center's construction in 1969 and of the increasing lack of free parking in the central business district. Harris complains that the city favored office development over retail downtown, leading to decay there. He closes by stating that Greensboro is not an "anti-social" city and noting that the 1960 sit-ins might have been considerably more violent had they occurred elsewhere.
Type	text
Original format	correspondence scrapbooks
Original dimensions	8.5 x 11"
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Language	en
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	MSS141 Clarence Lee Harris Papers, circa 1916-1997
Series/grouping	2 Correspondence
Box	1
Folder	Folder 4: Correspondence, 1971-1995
Finding aid link	http://libapps.uncg.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=506
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the contributing institution for permission to reuse.
Object ID	MSS141.001.004.1151
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5305 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
Sponsor	LSTA grant administered by the North Carolina State Library -- http://statelibrary.ncdcr.gov/ld/grants/lsta.html
OCLC number	884368223

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