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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]
Yvonne Johnson (October 26, 1942 – December 4, 2024) was an American politician who was the mayor of Greensboro, North Carolina, from 2007 until 2009. She was previously a member of the Greensboro City Council for 14 years, beginning in 1993 and Mayor Pro-Tem for 6 years. Johnson was the first African-American to serve as Greensboro's mayor. [1]
City of Greensboro decided. 1959 – Greensboro Coliseum opens. 1960 Greensboro sit-ins for civil rights occur. [7] [15] Population: 119,574. [16] 1967 Greensboro Inner City Ministry established. [17] Carolina Peacemaker begins publication. [18] 1968 – Family Life Council [19] and Greensboro Beautiful nonprofit established. 1969 Jack Elam ...
The Greensboro sit-in was quickly followed by other sit-ins in Richmond, Virginia; [82] [83] Nashville, Tennessee; and Atlanta, Georgia. [ 84 ] [ 85 ] The most immediately effective of these was in Nashville, where hundreds of well organized and highly disciplined college students conducted sit-ins in coordination with a boycott campaign.
GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Leaders with a Greensboro nonprofit that serves the homeless say it needs the community’s help after being hit by a significant financial setback. The Servant Center ...
Today, in downtown Wichita, Kansas, a statue depicting a waitress at a counter serving people honors this pioneering sit-in. [14] Despite the notable attention that has historically been given to the 1960 Greensboro sit-in, the 1958 Katz Drug Store sit-in in fact employed the same strategy that would be used in Greensboro one-and-a-half years ...
Blandwood Mansion is a historic house museum at 447 West Washington Street in Greensboro, North Carolina.Originally built as a four-room Federal style farmhouse in 1795, it was home to two-term North Carolina governor John Motley Morehead (1841-1844) under whose ownership it was transformed into its present appearance.
February 1 – Four black students sit at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparking six months of the Greensboro Sit-Ins. February 13 – The Nashville, Tennessee Sit-in begins, although the Nashville students, trained by activists and nonviolent teachers James Lawson and Myles Horton , had been doing preliminary ...