My mother moved from California to a still very segregated Greensboro in the 1950s and has told me about the shocking bus and drinking fountain policies. I agree wholeheartedly with euphrades:
It is essential to mention the segregated balcony that now houses technical equipment. I also find it extremely relevant that the decline of the cinema coincides with the beginning of the new shopping centres springing up at the edges of the (still) very white suburbs that had their own movie theatres. This development runs curiously parallel with the end of segregation that coincidentally started right around the corner of the Carolina Theatre with a sit-in at the Woolworth’s in Elm Street in 1960.
My mother moved from California to a still very segregated Greensboro in the 1950s and has told me about the shocking bus and drinking fountain policies. I agree wholeheartedly with euphrades:
It is essential to mention the segregated balcony that now houses technical equipment. I also find it extremely relevant that the decline of the cinema coincides with the beginning of the new shopping centres springing up at the edges of the (still) very white suburbs that had their own movie theatres. This development runs curiously parallel with the end of segregation that coincidentally started right around the corner of the Carolina Theatre with a sit-in at the Woolworth’s in Elm Street in 1960.