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This transcript of an October 3, 1974, oral history interview conducted by William Chafe with Warren Ashby primarily documents Ashby's membership with the Greensboro Community Fellowship and recollections of racial activism in the city. Ashby talks about the Greensboro School Board's actions after 1954's Brown v. Board of Education decision and statewide reactions, including newspaper coverage and the Pearsall Plan. He discusses the formation of the Greensboro Community Fellowship; meetings with McNeill Smith and North Carolina A&T University administrators during the 1963 sit-ins; desegregation of state universities; and activists in the community. Ashby also talks about members of the Greensboro Community Fellowship; Woman's College's response to the 1960 sit-ins; white participation in the sit-ins; polarization between the black and white communities in the late sixties; and the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce's response to racial activism.

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