A History of the Civil Rights Movement by M. LaVora Perry

Author:M. LaVora Perry
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: National Highlights Inc

Young African Americans, probably students at North Carolina Central Agriculture and Technical College, conduct a “sit-in” at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro.

The white waitress told the men that she could not serve blacks. The manager asked them to leave. But the four stayed seated. They quietly waited at the counter until the store closed. And they returned the next day. This time they were accompanied by about 20 more students, including four women. Local newspapers and TV news programs reported the story.

On the third day, there were approximately 60 people participating in the sit-in. Among them were several African American female students from Bennett College. On the fourth day, three white female students from Greensboro Women’s College joined the more than 300 students at the sit-in. A similar protest took place that day at the nearby S. H. Kress & Company retail store.

As news of the Greensboro protests spread, students organized sit-ins in other North Carolina cities and in other states. In some cases, African American students were joined by white students. Civil rights activist James Farmer later explained the importance of sit-ins:

They symbolized a change in the mood of African American people. Up until then, we had accepted segregation—begrudgingly—but we had accepted it.… At long last after decades of acceptance, four freshman students at North Carolina A&T went into Woolworth and at the lunch counter they “sat-in.” When told they would not be served, they refused to leave and this sparked a movement throughout the South.

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