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The Greensboro Sit-ins

Back in the day on February 1st, 1960, four young black college students challenged a white-only lunch counter policy in Greensboro, North Carolina. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond carried out their devised sit-in when they entered Woolworth’s Five-and-Dime shop. After purchasing items at the store, the four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students then took to the seats of the segregated lunch counter and requested service. A waitress informed them that blacks weren’t served there and Clarence Harris, the manager of Woolworth’s, asked them to leave. They didn’t. The shop then closed early and the four left without being served only to return the very next day with additional students joining in. Over the course of the ensuing days and weeks the protests grew in size and scope until five months later Woolworth’s, affected economically by the action, agreed to integrate its lunch counter in July and welcome all to the table.

The example of the Greensboro sit-ins soon spread throughout the movement for civil rights as a means by which to stand up to injustice.

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