{"id":325922,"date":"2025-12-05T00:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325922\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T00:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T00:22:09","slug":"gillespie-golf-course-to-honor-the-70th-anniversary-of-the-greensboro-six","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/325922\/","title":{"rendered":"Gillespie Golf Course to honor the 70th anniversary of the Greensboro Six"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greensboro honors the legacy of the Greensboro Six Sunday with a ceremonial tee-off and film screening<\/p>\n<p>GREENSBORO, N.C. \u2014 The Greensboro Parks and Recreation Department is set to tee-off a yearlong celebration Sunday to honor the <a href=\"https:\/\/aahc.nc.gov\/programs\/nc-civil-rights-trail\/nc-civil-rights-virtual-trail\/greensboro-six-december-7-1955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Greensboro Six<\/a> at Gillespie Golf Course.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The event will begin at 1:30 p.m. at Gillespie Golf Course with a ceremonial tee shot by six people to mark the 70th anniversary of the Greensboro Six.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>At 2:00 p.m., a special screening of a short film documenting the Greensboro Six and the 2024 mural installation will be presented in the First Tee building.<\/p>\n<p>The course will offer $.75 green fees for anyone that would like to play a game of golf.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/aahc.nc.gov\/programs\/nc-civil-rights-trail\/nc-civil-rights-virtual-trail\/greensboro-six-december-7-1955\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Greensboro Six<\/a>\u2019s actions in December 1955 ultimately helped lead to the integration of Gillespie Golf Course.<\/p>\n<p>Surviving family members of the Greensboro Six will be in attendance to share more about their legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can reserve your tee time by calling the golf shop at (336) 373-5850.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Greensboro honors the legacy of the Greensboro Six Sunday with a ceremonial tee-off and film screening GREENSBORO, N.C.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[443],"tags":[49,48,622,82],"class_list":["post-325922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}