[Account of participation in the sit-ins]

              The following is an account by Beth Taylor of her recent experiences in connection
with desegregation activities in Greensboro, N.C.  Beth will probably be in Meeting
June 2, if anyone wishes to discuss this further after Meeting for Worship.
I have just received a letter from Larry Miller suggesting that I relay to
you the recent happenings in my life.  I don't really know quite what to Say, but
shall first give the details of the incident and then the reactions of this in-
name-only Quaker institution.
On Thursday, May 9, Bill Thomas, local chairman of CORE in Greensboro, called
to notify me of a stand-in demonstration at McDonald?s--a drive-in hamburger place-
that Saturday.  Two other freshmen and I went in.  The turn-out was small because
little interest was aroused by the demonstration.  Four CORE leaders, negroes, were
arrested for refusing to leave the property when asked by the manager in the presence
of a police officer.  The four were released Monday on bail.
Monday night we went to a CORE meeting. Tuesday Reverend Stanley, minister
from A & T College, one of two Greensboro negro colleges, Dick Ransey, AFSC College
Secretary from High Point, and two negro students came to speak to Guilford students*
As permission to meet on campus would be difficult to get, and not assured, Aldean
Pitts had us meet in the Friend's Church.  It was announced that night that McDonald's
had been desegregated, largely due to the fact that white students, as well as
negro, had participated.  This was a  .major victory for CORE and it prom pted a
very large turnout for the demonstration Wednesday.
Two sophomores went in with the three of us.  At the mass meeting preceding
the march, Bill Thomas called me aside to ask our special help.  Six or so negro
students had volunteered for arrest once in the S & W Cafeteria.  Negotiations
with this and another cafeteria and two theatres have been going on since September,
to no avail.  The remainder of the students would picket.  As we were all white and
could easily enter the S & W (The demonstration was expected, and managers and
police were guarding the entrance.) v/e were to distract the managerus" . attention
so that the negroes could enter.  We all agreed to do this and left.  This was all
timed precisely.  The remainder of the 1200 students were singing "We Shall Overcome*'.
the
We entered the cafeteria and went to/end of the line.  I was first and was
asked what I would like.  I replied that I v/anted such-and-such when they served my
friends outside. They asked who my friends were.  I replied, "The negro demonstrators outside.55 There were about six pickets.  The waitress then told the others in
line to go around us.  This had not produced the desired effect.  We demanded service, and got the Manager.  He, being  familiar with the procedure involved, asked
each of us to leave, and said that he would not serve us.  I reminded him that we
did not have to do so until each of us was asked individually in the presence of a
police officer.  The police came, as did TV, movie cameras and newspapermen.  V/e
were asked, andr^alized that refusal would mean arrest.  We had asked Bill Thomas
about this, but he had only told us that this was completely up to each of us as
individuals, and he could not advise us either way.
Four of us, two girls and two boys were arrested.  One girl chose to leave.
We were taken to the city hall in a police car.  There, we were finger-printed, had
"mug-shots" taken (I was #58907) and were put in jail cells.  V/e called two people^
One was a Mr. Engleman, philosophy and French instructor, who has proved to be of
more help than anyone else in our "crusade", and Aldean Pitts.  We asked Mr. Pitts
only to get in touch with Reverend Stanley.  However, he called Pete Moore, who in
turn called the President of the College, the dean of students, and dean of college,
and came himself to get us out, much to our dismay.  V/e would have preferred  not
to have been given special attention.