WSSU golfer Cam Witherspoon featured on Greensboro Six mural at the Gillespie Golf Course

The mural that commemorates the legacy of the Greensboro Six – Dr. George Simkins, Phillip Cooke, Leonidas Wolfe, Samuel Murray, Joseph Sturdivant and Elijah Herring – the six men who decided to play nine holes at the city-owned, whites-only Gillespie Golf Course on Dec. 7, 1955, was recently unveiled. The six men were charged with trespassing and spent 15 days in jail.

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