Biography
Otis L. Hairston Jr. was a Greensboro civil-rights activist and later the city’s first Black council member. He was arrested twice during the 1963 desegregation campaign, once during the downtown square sit-down and once at the Carolina Theatre. Hairston was among demonstrators confined in the former polio hospital and processed at the Greensboro Coliseum, which officials used as mass-detention sites. The surviving catalog record does not establish the exact dates or duration of either confinement.
