Pitts: Fayetteville residents share their stories about Fayetteville's Green Book stops
“Oasis Spaces” is the nickname state cultural officials give to the barber shops, beauty salons, restaurants, hotels, service stations and private homes that served African-American travelers during the era of Jim Crow segregation.The name is fitting.During that time, before the gains of the Civil Rights movement, black drivers and families would not be admitted many places in the South, no matter how basic the human need for rest, or food, or the need to get […]
