Oral history interview with Ulysses Lee Jr. by Eugene Pfaff

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In this transcript of a July 29, 1982, oral history interview conducted by Eugene Pfaff with Ulysses Lee Jr., Lee primarily discusses the history, strategies, and activities of the Greensboro CORE chapter, which he led in 1963 and 1964. Other topics include the role of the adult black community, police, Elizabeth Laizner, Jesse Jackson, and Lewis Dowdy in demonstrations. Lee also provides details of the 1963 picketing and mass arrests at the S&W Cafeteria and Center Theater.

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Title: Oral history interview with Ulysses Lee Jr. by Eugene Pfaff
Who's responsible?: Lee, Ulysses Ralph, Jr. (Interviewee)
Pfaff, Eugene E., Jr., 1948- (Interviewer)
Original creation or publication date: 1982-07-29
Place: Greensboro (N.C.)
Decade: 1980-1989
Type of item: text
Original format: interviews
Subject headings: Greensboro (N.C.) -- Race relations
Protest movements -- United States
Topics: North Carolina
African-American History
Business
Additional tags: Business desegregation, protests, and marches, 1963
General perspectives on race relations
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Contributing Institution: Greensboro Public Library
Collection: Greensboro Public Library Oral History Program
Civil Rights Greensboro
Funding source: Digitzation funded by a grant from the Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro.
Contributor's identifier: GPL_OH0001.069
Gateway identifier: gpl:7363
Item note: Ulysses R. Lee, the son of a bank teller and a transit authority worker, was raised in New York. While in high school, he joined the Brooklyn NAACP Youth chapter. He moved to Greensboro, N.C., to attend North Carolina A&T State University in 1961. As a student at A&T, Lee participated in many local civil rights demonstrations, including the pickets at S&W Cafeteria and the Center Theater. After the resignation of Bill Thomas in fall 1963, Lee was elected chairman of the Greensboro chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), which he served through 1964. Following graduationfrom A&T in 1965, Lee worked for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) aiding in voter registration drives in Rock Hill, S.C., before returning to his native New York.
OCLC number: 884368079

Oral history interview with Ulysses Lee Jr. by Eugene Pfaff

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