How Four Black Students Changed the World (The Story of the Greensboro Four)

12/12/22 • 13 min

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On February, 1, 1960, Four Black college students that sat at a "whites only" Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and sparked a movement that would spread to towns throughout the South and forced Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist policies.
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Civilities and civil rights : Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black struggle for freedom
by Chafe, William Henry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/lessons-worth-learning-moment-greensboro-four-sat-down-lunch-counter-180974087/
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