Greensboro’s Civil Rights Museum Opens
Monday, February 01 2010
by Frank Stasio and Susan Davis
sitinmovement.org
We’re broadcasting live from Greensboro today to celebrate the opening of the new International Civil Rights Center and Museum. The old Woolworth’s building is now a monument to the sit-in movement that began there 50 years ago. Host Frank Stasio discusses the significance of the place and of the movement it birthed with: Guilford County Commissioner and Co-Founder of the museum, Melvin “Skip” Alston; Franklin McCain, one of the original Greensboro Four; Bill Chafe, the Mary Alice Baldwin Professor of History at Duke University and the author of “Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina and the Black Struggle for Freedom;” Victor Vines, president of Vines Architecture; and, Bamidele Demerson, curator of the museum.
