Civil disobedience.

• Position: TRIAD REGION - Restructuring of museum - Brief article

Months of political infighting came to a head with the dismissal of the executive director at Greensboro's International Civil Rights Center & Museum. Accounts vary on the reasons behind Lacy Ward's firing in November after seven months on the job, though his restructuring plans upset some of the nonprofit's directors. No one disputes that the museum has struggled financially since opening in 2010. The center commemorates civil-rights efforts, particularly the sit-in movement launched by four N.C. A&T University students at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in 1960. Recent reports aren't available, but the museum lost $700,000 between 2010 and 2012 and has no reserve. The city provided a $1.5 million loan in 2013 that can be forgiven if the museum raises an equal amount by July. After Ward's firing, Mayor Nancy Vaughan proposed the city take over management. The board rejected that plan amid accusations that white politicians wanted to control an institution co-founded by black leaders Earl...