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The International Civil Rights Center & Museum ( ICRCM) is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. Its building formerly housed the Woolworth's, the site of a nonviolent protest in the civil rights movement. Four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) started the Greensboro sit-ins at a ...
www .tangercenter .com. Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina is an $88 million [ 1] 3,023-seat performing arts facility. [ 2] Its first public performance was a September 2021 concert [ 1] which was followed by an official opening in November 2021. [ 3] It replaces the 2,400-seat War Memorial ...
Greensboro Cultural Center. Coordinates: 36.0738°N 79.7885°W. Greensboro Cultural Center. The Greensboro Cultural Center is a City of Greensboro Office of arts & culture facility, [1] and is home to many arts-related programs in Greensboro, North Carolina .
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]
When first listed, the district encompassed 96 contributing buildings in the central business district of Greensboro. The commercial buildings were built between about 1885 and the 1930s in a variety of popular architectural styles including Italianate and Art Deco. Located in the district is the separately listed Jefferson Standard Building.
Greensboro's neighborhoods have no "official" borders, such that some of the places listed below may overlap geographically, and residents are not always in agreement with where one neighborhood ends and another begins. Historically, many neighborhoods were defined by platted subdivisions. Others were originally villages before being ...
The first Washington, D.C area location opened downtown in 1934; a 27,000-square-foot (2,500 m 2) restaurant in the Washington Building, 1425 G Street, NW at New York Avenue. [5] It was a regular stop for southern congressman, including Sen. Richard Russell (D-GA) and Sen. Clyde Hoey (D-NC). During World War II, the cafeteria served up to 9,000 ...
Four Seasons Town Centre is a three-story shopping mall in Greensboro, North Carolina.Opened in 1974, it was the first enclosed shopping center in Greensboro. Currently it is anchored by Dillard's and JCPenney and it is the only indoor shopping mall within Greensboro's city limits; however, nearby Friendly Center, an outdoor shopping plaza, has many of the same tenants.