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1960 Greensboro Sit-ins
1media/Screen Shot 2023-03-27 at 12.18.35 PM_thumb.png2023-03-27T19:20:02+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4911"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. The Greensboro Four, as they became known, had also been spurred to action by the brutal murder in 1955 of a young Black boy, Emmett Till, who had allegedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi store."plain2023-03-27T19:20:02+00:001960Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49