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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]
On May 28, 1963, in Jackson, Mississippi, Gray joined white and black Tougaloo College students in a sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter to protest segregation. Tougaloo students included white student Joan Trumpauer and black student Anne Moody who sat at the front counter instead of at the segregated section for black citizens and ...
A section of the standard wood, stainless steel, and chrome lunch counter from the Woolworth's five and dime in Greensboro, North Carolina.This particular lunch counter is preserved in the National Museum of American History, having been the site of the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins against racial segregation and Jim Crow laws.
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Sit-ins were by far the most prominent in 1960, however, they were still a useful tactic in the civil rights movement in the years to come. In February 1961, students from Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, organized a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter. The students were then arrested and refused to pay bail.
The men sat down at a lunch counter, Donaldson said, and “marched into the pages of history.” The State reporter John Monk contributed to this report This story has been updated to correct the ...
Jibreel Khazan (born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr.; October 18, 1941) is a civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four, a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.
Mulholland participated in the May 28, 1963 sit-in to protest racial segregation at the lunch counter of the Woolworth’s store in downtown Jackson. She was one of 14 activists, including fellow Tougaloo student Anne Moody, professor John Salter, and white Tougaloo chaplain Ed King. The activists were beaten, smeared with condiments, and berated.