A number of laws and rules evolved over the years separating black and white people. Then a well researched book, An American Dilemma, claimed that segregation prevented equality. College students read it and became determined to end segregation. Black people were not allowed to sit at the same lunch counters as white people. Black students wanting equality knew they had to start somewhere and decided to attack that rule. They started by sitting at the white lunch counter.
On February 1, 1960, four students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Greensboro Four ordered coffee. Lunch conter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter. The four university freshmen - Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and David Richond - stayed until the store closed.Because the event is important in American history, the four seats and the counter from the lunch room are on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
It was a Woolworths in downtown Greensboro. Since then it has been turned into a museum celebrating civil rights.
The sit-in happened on February 1, 1960.
On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities.MoreThe conference from which it formed took place on April 15-17, 1960. There is a link below.
On February 1, 1960, inside the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Four students organized a sit in at a lunch counter in Greensboro, NC.
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On February 1, 1960, four students from the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The Greensboro Four ordered coffee. Lunch conter staff refused to serve the African American men at the "whites only" counter. The four university freshmen - Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and David Richond - stayed until the store closed.Because the event is important in American history, the four seats and the counter from the lunch room are on display in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
It was a Woolworths in downtown Greensboro. Since then it has been turned into a museum celebrating civil rights.
On February 1, four young African American men, students at North Carolina Agriculture and Technical College, go to a Woolworth in Greensboro, North Carolina, and sit down at a whites only lunch counter. They order coffee. Despite being denied service, they sit silently and politely at the lunch counter until closing time. Their action marks the start of the Greensboro sit ins, which sparks similar protests all over the South.
The sit-in happened on February 1, 1960.
They wanted all African-Americans to be served at the lunch counter at Woolworths in N.C.
The Greensboro sit-in was a form of civil disobedience where African American students peacefully protested against racial segregation by sitting at a whites-only lunch counter. They remained seated despite being refused service, sparking national attention and inspiring similar protests across the country. This act was a key moment in the Civil Rights Movement.
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On February 1, 1960, a group of black college students from North Carolina A&T University refused to leave a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where they had been denied service. This sparked a wave of other sit-ins in college towns across the South. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC (pronounced "snick"), was created on the campus of Shaw University in Raleigh two months later to coordinate these sit-ins, support their leaders, and publicize their activities.MoreThe conference from which it formed took place on April 15-17, 1960. There is a link below.
Woolworth's sit-in protests occurred in the late 1950's as an attempt to get Woolworth's to end its discriminatory practices against African-Americans. In Greensboro, NC, black college youth went to a Woolworth's, sat down at the counter, and refused to leave, demanding to be served just like white patrons.