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1. 1 media/Screen Shot 2021-11-30 at 2.24.17 PM_thumb.png 2021-11-30T22:25:55+00:00 Gina Leon f0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49 1960 Lunch Counter Sit Ins (Woolworths) 4 Sit-In Begins Blair, Richmond, McCain and McNeil planned their protest carefully, and enlisted the help of a local white businessman, Ralph Johns, to put their plan into action. On February 1, 1960, the four students sat down at the lunch counter at the Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro, where the official policy was to refuse service to anyone but whites. Denied service, the four young men refused to give up their seats. Police arrived on the scene but were unable to take action due to the lack of provocation. By that time, Johns had already alerted the local media, who had arrived in full force to cover the events on television. The Greensboro Four stayed put until the store closed, then returned the next day with more students from local colleges. media/Screen Shot 2021-11-30 at 2.24.17 PM.png plain 2021-12-04T01:15:22+00:00 02/01/1960 Gina Leon f0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
2. 1 media/Greensboro Four copy Large_thumb.jpeg 2021-11-25T00:45:07+00:00 Gina Leon f0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49 Photo of Greensboro Four 3 The Greensboro Four were four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All four were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. media/Greensboro Four copy Large.jpeg plain 2021-12-01T20:02:34+00:00 02/01/1961 Gina Leon f0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49
3. 1 media/Greensboro Sit in_thumb.jpeg 2022-07-14T00:23:31+00:00 Gina Leon f0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49 1960s Greensboro Sit-in 2 The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. Though many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist policies. Greensboro Four The Greensboro Four were four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All four were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. They were influenced by the nonviolent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, as well as the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in 1947, in which interracial activists rode across the South in buses to test a recent Supreme Court decision banning segregation in interstate bus travel. media/Greensboro Sit in.jpeg plain 2022-07-14T00:24:13+00:00 1960 Gina Leon f0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49