Greensboro Sit-ins
Four young men's act of non-violent protest is one of the great successes of the civil rights era
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Show Notes
On Feb. 1, 1960, in Greensboro, NC, four young black students went into a Woolworth’s department store, sat at the lunch counter and ordered food. They were denied service. But instead of going home and not returning - the men came back the next day. And the next. And the next - until thousands of people were staging sit-ins all over the south in protest of segregated seating at restaurants. This is the story of the Greensboro sit-ins.
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Sources
https://northcarolinahistory.org/encyclopedia/greensboro-sit-in/
https://www.history.com/articles/the-greensboro-sit-in
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
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