Greensboro sit-ins
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Image:LunchCounter.jpg On February 1, 1960, four African American students (Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain) from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store. Although they were refused service, they were allowed to stay at the counter, sparking off sit-ins and economic boycotts that were a landmark of the American civil rights movement. In just two months the sit-in movement spread to 54 cities in 9 states. Six months after the sit-ins began, the original four protesters were served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. Sit-ins would be effective throughout the South in integrating other public facilities. In 1993, the lunch counter was donated to the Smithsonian Institution. This sit-in inspired all the others during the Civil Rights Movement.
Several documentaries have been procudes about these men who sparked the sit in movement, including PBS' "Februrary One" [1].
[edit] See also
- Nashville sit-ins
- American Civil Rights Movement
- American Civil Rights Movement Timeline
- F.W. Woolworth Company
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