In this transcript of a December 9, 1986, oral history interview conducted by William Link with Boyd Morris, Morris describes his response to civil rights demonstrators at the Mayfair, his confrontation with Jesse Jackson, his reasons for not desegregating his restaurant, and the results of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on downtown businesses including his own. He also recalls many details of his years on the city council and as mayor of Greensboro.