GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - A civil rights museum in Greensboro has cut in half the amount it would owe the city on a $700,000 loan if it can’t raise enough money by next year.
Greensboro City Manager Jim Westmoreland told the News & Record of Greensboro (https://bit.ly/2kEPQrk ) that the International Civil Rights Center & Museum has raised $370,000.
The city lent the museum $1.5 million in 2013 to cover debt used to renovate the old Woolworth’s building where a major lunch counter sit-in in 1960 helped spark protests across the South.
Greensboro has agreed to pay off a dollar for each dollar the museum raises to pay off the loan.
Museum co-founder Earl Jones says a golf tournament and telethon is planned for this year. He thinks the museum can raise all the money.
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Information from: News & Record, https://www.news-record.com
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