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Greensboro Council Members Propose Loan To Help Civil Rights Museum

WUNC | By Gurnal Scott
Published August 30, 2013 at 4:46 PM EDT
The International Civil Rights Center and Museum faces ongoing financial struggles, and the Greensboro mayor wants the city to take it over.
Jeff Tiberii

There is a deal on the table to help keep the doors of theInternational Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro open.   The museum, at the site of a famous lunch counter sit-in in 1960, has been struggling financially. 

Now, the city's mayor and three council members will bring a potential loan package to the full council.  Museum officials requested $1.5 million.  The city's plan calls for a total of $750,000 and creates committees to help oversee operations.  

Council will also be represented with two seats on the board.  Councilwoman Nancy Vaughan helped negotiate the tentative deal.

"No one has said that we don't want the museum or it shouldn't be here," Vaughan says.  "I think we all see the importance of it and I think it's something in our history that we should be proud of.  We just have to find a way to get the museum to be self sustaining."

Vaughn has been critical of the way the museum has handled tours in the past.  The full Greensboro council will discuss the deal Tuesday.
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Gurnal Scott
Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
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