Sharing a moment in history:
Feb. 1, 1960: The Greensboro Sit-in Begins: 1960, African-American NC A&T students, Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel Khazan), David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil, began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, where they had been refused service.
Their protest, while not the first sit-in of the modern Civil Rights Movement, triggered a wave of direct action through sit-ins across the U.S. and the formation of SNCC.
Students from Bennett College also played a major role in planning and sustaining the Feb. 1, 1960 sit-in.
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Danette O'Neal, PhD 