Vice President Kamala Harris makes historic visit to the International Civil Rights Center & Museum
Quincy Jones and the late Senator John Lewis are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to famous people that have visited the International Civil Rights Museum Author: Jaelen Gilkey Updated: 6:03 PM EDT April 20, 2021
GREENSBORO, N.C. Just yesterday, Vice President Kamala Harris was in the Greensboro and High Point, promoting the American Jobs Plan.
She stopped at Guilford Technical Community College and Thomas Built Buses, but Madam Vice President made an unexpected stop to one of Greensboro s most famous places.
Names like Quincy Jones and the late Senator John Lewis are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to famous people that have visited the International Civil Rights Museum in Downtown Greensboro.
Guilford Technical Community College
11:50 A.M. EDT
THE VICE PRESIDENT: Hello, North Carolina! Hello and good afternoon. (Applause.) Good afternoon. Please have a seat. Good afternoon.
It is so wonderful to be back in North Carolina. And I just want to thank you, everyone. Vanessa, your story is extraordinary. And thank you for all you have accomplished. You are truly a role model for so many.
And, Dr. Anthony Clarke, I want to thank you for the warm welcome. It is truly an honor to be with North Carolina’s own EPA Administrator, Michael Regan; with my longstanding friend, Governor Roy Cooper; and with Congresswoman Kathy Manning.
Kamala Harris sits in seat that Rosa Parks used to protest whites-only policy at Woolrich s lunch counter in 1960 that is now at civil rights museum in Greensboro, North Carolina
Vice President Kamala Harris sat in the same spot as civil rights legend Rosa Parks during a surprise visit to the International Civil Rights Center & Museum
The museum was built in the building that housed Woolworth s, where the A&T Four staged the 1960 lunch counter sit-in, a key moment of the civil rights era
They had been inspired by Parks refusal to get up from her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama bus in 1955, along with her subsequent arrest
Vice President Harris Touts Jobs Plan In Guilford County Stops by Paul Garber
4:50pm Apr 19, 2021 Vice President Kamala Harris talks to media at the conclusion of a tour at Thomas Built Buses Monday in High Point. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
Vice President Kamala Harris made stops in Guilford County Monday to push the White House’s American Jobs Plan.
Harris visited Guilford Technical Community College, where she called the measure a once-in-a-lifetime investment in America s future.
She said the White House plan would be the biggest investment in jobs since World War II and promised they’d be good jobs.
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