Price, Jim

Description

This transcript of a May 25, 1977, oral history interview conducted by Scott Ellsworth with Jim Price primarily documents Price's involvement in community activism and anti-Vietnam War protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the 1960s. Price recalls a Ku Klux Klan rally in Greensboro where community members taunted the Klansmen, running a newspaper article about it which upset the KKK, and an intimidating visit with Klansmen Eddie Dawson and George Dorsett to get their side of the story. He describes Klansmen monitoring Tate Street to make sure black men didn't associate with Woman's College students and the types of people that frequented some Tate Street establishments in the early sixties. Price also discusses Hal Sieber, rumors forcing him to leave the Greensboro Chamber of Commerce, and chamber-sponsored community sensitivity sessions; forming an activist ministry in Greensboro; unsuccessfully reaching out to the black activist community; visiting Malcolm X University; uniting with Nelson Johnson against the death penalty; organizing a protest that became violent and an ineffective anti-Nixon demonstration; the end of the counterculture movement; protesting the joint ownership of the media outlets in Greensboro; and the importance of the media in community activism.

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University of North Carolina at Greensboro

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North Carolina Digital Heritage Center