WUNC: “A week after Rosa Parks began a bus boycott protesting segregation, several Black men played a round of golf at the whites-only Gillespie Golf Course in Greensboro, NC.
After placing their payment for the round on a front table in the course clubhouse, the men played through several holes before management began harassing them through the round. The men were arrested and jailed for days.
The case went all the way to the Supreme Court, and even though the Six lost, their actions led to the eventual integration of Gillespie Golf Course….
Leoneda Inge talks with WUNC’s Josh Sullivan about this North Carolina history and how the men are being honored.”