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Virtually Nothing Happened until 1960 in civil rights. It was bad, absolutely bad. Even Martin Luther king said that. In 1960, things changed dramatically. Xi happen to be there. When you hear a railroad, the train is coming from far away, you become increasingly aware of the truck the train is rolling on. The track is what divides from black, it separates the white get from the black ghetto. Youre heading somewhere you dont really know where. Its not really for the good of society. And we block...

Four Black college students changed the course of history with a 1960 sit-in protest at the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.

The Greensboro Sit-in was a major civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young Black students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.

The Baptist preacher had been here before. The Rev. Martin Luther King, NAACP lawyer Thurgood Marshall, who would be the first African American appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court, and

The flying field trip took place on Saturday, Oct. 21 with four sixth-graders and eight seventh-graders from Superior participating.

They made history 63 years ago today!

Greensboro sit-in, act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960. Its success led to a wider sit-in movement, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, that spread throughout the South.

Editors Pick Bettmann / Getty Images ON 1 FEBRUARY 1960, Ezell Blair Jr, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, African-American students at the Agricultural and Technical State University of North Carolina, sat down at the whites-only lunch counter at a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro. “The white patrons eyed them warily, and the white waitresses ignored their studiously polite requests for service,” Time later reported. The manager called the police an...

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