This month we celebrate the courageous actions of the Greensboro Four the hundreds of Black leaders and activists who have helped paved the way for a more fair and equal society. At one point a bomb threat was phoned in at the Woolworth sit-in on a day when fourteen hundred students came out to protest the segregated lunch counters delaying the protest temporarily.

How The Greensboro Four Sit In Sparked A Movement History

Jibreel Khazan and Joe McNeil four African American students from North Carolina AT State University staged a sit-in in Greensboro at Woolworth a popular retail store that was known for refusing to serve African Americans at its lunch counter.

Greensboro four sit in. Greensboro Four. The sit-in movement is our history and a reminder of the importance of speaking up against injustice white supremacy and inequality especially right now. Jibreel Khazan Joseph McNeil Franklin McCain and David Richmonds sit-in was a watershed event in the struggle for civil rights as their nonviolent action helped ignite a youth-led.

On February 1 1960 four African-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro North Carolina Woolworths store. On this day 61 years ago four North Carolina AT students held the first major sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement at Greensboros Woolworth lunch counter. Greensboro Sit-Ins On February 1 1960 David Richmond Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr.

Was born and grew up in Greensboro. Greensboro sit-in act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina that began on February 1 1960. The Greensboro Four were four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro.

Now known as Jibreel Khazan David Richmond Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeilwere students at North Carolina and Agricultural and Technical College. This event led him and his friends to stage the sit in at Woolworths. February 2nd 1960 twentyfive other students from AT and other Greensboro colleges and universities joined them.

The Greensboro sit-in was an act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro North Carolina. While a student at AT he was president of the junior class and the Greensboro Congress for racial equality. All in all the Greensboro sit ins remained largely free of violence police reaction was normally limited to those demonstrators who did turn violent.

During the next 10 days students across the state participated in similar sitins. Its success led to a wider sit-in movement organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee that spread throughout the South. Not long after their protest sit-ins.

Chronology of the SitIn. The Greensboro Four leave Woolworths on the first day of the Greensboro sit-ins in 1960. NORTH CAROLINA -- Feb.

Young people in other North Carolina cities. The Greensboro Sit-Ins were the first prominent sit-ins of the civil rights movement. On February 1 1960 four African American men sat at the counter which was designated as whites only.

David Richmond from left Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr. Being a part of the Greensboro Four made it hard to get a job so he moved to Bedford MA. And David Richmond sat down at a whites-only Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro NC.

Events that occurred as a result of this bold action by these four young men included. The Greensboro Sit-In of 1960 Four North Carolina studentsJoseph McNeil Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr and David Richmondorganized the. While the sit-in at Greensboro was incredibly significant the courageous Greensboro Four and the counter enshrined at the Smithsonian attained their legendary status thanks to the individual work.

Ezell Blair Jr David Richmond Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. On February 1 1960 four Black college freshmen Joseph McNeil Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr. The Greensboro Four the four young black men who staged the first sit-ins in GreensboroEzell Blair Jr.

The Greensboro sit-in was a major moment in the American civil rights movement when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworths lunch counter in North Carolina. Led by four North Carolina AT Students Joseph McNeil Franklin McCain Jibreel Khazan then Ezell Blair Jr and David Richmond the nonviolent protests lasted over five months. 1 marks the anniversary of the beginning of the historic Greensboro sit-ins which were held at a Woolworths in downtown Greensboro.

The actions of the Greensboro Four quickly inspired other students to act. In April 1960 the. Now Jibreel Khazan and Joseph McNeil.