The Greensboro Four
On February 1, 1960, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond, all students at NC A&T, staged a sit-in at the Woolworth's on Elm Street wanting to protest segregation laws. Blair said, “We didn’t want to set the world on fire, we just wanted to eat.”
Two days later twenty more students joined with more joining each passing day, and the protest soon spread throughout the south.
On July 25, 1960, Woolworth's began serving African Americans with the first people served being the African American lunch counter staff themselves. Within a week, over 300 were served.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
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The Greensboro Four
On February 1, 1960, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond, all students at NC A&T, staged a sit-in at the Woolworth's on Elm Street wanting to protest segregation laws. Blair said, “We didn’t want to set the world on fire, we just wanted to eat.”
Two days later twenty more students joined with more joining each passing day, and the protest soon spread throughout the south.
On July 25, 1960, Woolworth's began serving African Americans with the first people served being the African American lunch counter staff themselves. Within a week, over 300 were served.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
Our Daily Challenge - I Was Here
(In Explore 7/25/2022)
Canon FD 35mm f/2 concave, taken at f/5.6