The Greensboro Four

On February 1st, 1960, four students from Nc A& T State Universtiy held the most famous sitin during the Civil Rights Movement. They were known as the Greensboro Four. Their names were Joseph McNeil, Jibreel Khazan (formerly know as Ezell Blair, Jr.), Franklin McCain, and David Richmond.

Here's what happened. The students entered a store called Woolworths in Greensboro, NC and each made a small purchase, saving their receipts to prove that they were customers. They took seats at the whites only lunch counter. They were denied service but stayed in their seats. The Manager of the store called the police, but the police were unable to arrest them because they were not doing anything against the law. The Woolworths manager closed the store early hoping that they wouldn't come back the next day, though they vowed they would.

On February 2nd, the Greensboro Four returned to Woolworths just as they had promised and sat at the counter. By the next day, television had spread the protest to High Point, NC.

This went on until June 25th, 1960. The number of people at the Woolworths sitin had increased until there were thousands of protesters and onlookers. Studentsfrom Bennett College and Greensboro Women's College joined the sitin. On June 26th, 1960 Woolworths finally allows blacks and whites to sit at the same lunch counter to eat.

Katie K.