Author : Hoke Norris
Release : 2009-12
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 632/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis We Dissent by : Hoke Norris
Download or read book We Dissent written by Hoke Norris. This book was released on 2009-12. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1962 edition. Excerpt: ...something of the history of this racial strife that we are contending with. It was on last February 1 that four Negro college students from a North Carolina college went into a Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C. They bought some tooth paste and other minor items at one of the counters, then turned over to the lunch counter and ordered a cup of coffee. The waitress there said, "I'm sorry, we do not serve colored people here." One of the students said, "Why, I have just been served here. I bought a tube of tooth paste over there." She said, "Well, we serve you over there, but we do not serve you here." That was the first of these demonstrations. Many followed there in Greensboro involving hundreds of people. They spread throughout North Carolina, on to Virginia, to South Carolina, to all of the other states of the South, including Florida. And we have had many throughout our state and, unlike some people assume, not all of these demonstrations were sponsored by students; in fact, only a minority have been sponsored by students. But the worst of all, of course, has occurred, I think, as some of you know, in Tallahassee. And there it was largely sponsored by students from the Florida A. & M. University, our Negro institution, and Florida State University. There the City of Tallahassee took a rather rigid and punitive position in respect to these demonstrations. And, of course, this gave the appearance of partiality or of nonobjectivity and this caused the conditions to become aggravated and we finally developed conditions there in Tallahassee of which I am frankly ashamed. Yesterday and the day before there was a tenseness about the atmosphere in Tallahassee that was disgraceful. We had armed patrolmen, state, county, and city, patrolling every...
