Record #:

29157

Author(s):

Graham, David A.; Seawell, Joey [Photographer]

Abstract:

Durham, North Carolina-based architect Phil Freelon is the new internationally acclaimed architect of record for the Smithsnonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Among the museum's artifacts are stools form the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where the fateful sit-in took place in 1960. Freelon also designed the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, that occupies that same Woolworths.

Source:

Our State (NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 85 Issue 4, September 2017, p166-168, 170, por

Subject(s):

Architects--Durham; Civil rights movement; Civil rights demonstrations--Greensboro; Museums--Greensboro