File:Greensboro sit-in lunch counter.jpg
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Counter segment where Greensboro students staged a civil rights sit-in protest on display in the National Museum of American History in Washington DC.
| “ | GREENSBORO LUNCH COUNTER, 1960 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins" class="extiw" title="en:Greensboro sit-ins">From the site of an important civil rights protest</a>
Segregation in public places was still legal on February 1, 1960, when four African American college students deliberately sat down at this "whites only" lunch counter at an F. W. Woolworth store in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" class="extiw" title="en:Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro</a>. When denied service and asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Over the next six months, hundreds of students and church and community members joined the protest. Their activism ultimately led to the desegregation of the lunch counter on July 25, 1960 "With their very bodies," civil rights leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Farmer,_Jr." class="extiw" title="en:James L. Farmer, Jr.">James Farmer</a> later said of the protestors "they obstructed the wheels of injustice." |
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| current | 23:27, 3 January 2017 | | 2,313 × 1,545 (1.7 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | Counter segment where Greensboro students staged a civil rights sit-in protest on display in the National Museum of American History in Washington DC. <table class="cquote" style="margin:auto; border-collapse: collapse; border: none; background-color: transparent; width: auto;"><tr> <td width="20" valign="top" style="border:none; color:#B2B7F2;font-size:35px;font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: left; padding: 10px 10px;"> “ </td> <td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;"> <b>GREENSBORO LUNCH COUNTER, 1960</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins" class="extiw" title="en:Greensboro sit-ins">From the site of an important civil rights protest</a> <p>Segregation in public places was still legal on February 1, 1960, when four African American college students deliberately sat down at this "whites only" lunch counter at an F. W. Woolworth store in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" class="extiw" title="en:Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro</a>. When denied service and asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Over the next six months, hundreds of students and church and community members joined the protest. Their activism ultimately led to the desegregation of the lunch counter on July 25, 1960 "With their very bodies," civil rights leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Farmer,_Jr." class="extiw" title="en:James L. Farmer, Jr.">James Farmer</a> later said of the protestors "they obstructed the wheels of injustice." </p> </td> <td width="20" valign="bottom" style="border: none; color: #B2B7F2; font-size: 35px; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-weight: bold; text-align: right; padding: 10px 10px;"> ” </td> </tr></table> |
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