Greensboro, North Carolina was home to our rave college students who stood up for their rights. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond attened North Carolina A&T State University. One day these four men sat at the lunch couter knowing that they would not be served, but they werent interested in eating. They were protesting the segregated luch counters of Woolworths store. These peacfull protest grew fom these four men to ovbe 300 students over a time of five days. Months later Woolwoths storedesegregated its luinch counters and now offered seats at the lunch counter to blacks. This sparked protests and sit-ins all over the south to fight for equality between whites and blacks. I chose this store because four young men, not much older than us completely transformed a segregated town by one small protest. It shows the power that people can have when they come together and stand up for what is right.
This sit-in had such a large mpacton the Cvil Rights Movement that a piece of the Woolworths store lunch conter ws preserved and is eing kept in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. The fact that this sit-in made such and impact o the Civil Rights Movement really shows that standing up for your rights can be successful and itchanged ur country for the better. The Greensboro four made such an impact of the rights of African Americans that they turned Woolworth's store into The International Civil Rights Center & Museum.
While you're in Greensboro...
- jump on one of the 35 rides at the Wet 'N Wild Emerald Pointe Water Park
- go to the Greensboro Children's Museum
- have a lovely italian meal at a Greensboro Japanese restaurant
- go fishing or have a picnic at the Oka T. Hester Park
- catch a Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball game
Greensboro, North Carolina was home to our rave college students who stood up for their rights. Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair, Jr., and David Richmond attened North Carolina A&T State University. One day these four men sat at the lunch couter knowing that they would not be served, but they werent interested in eating. They were protesting the segregated luch counters of Woolworths store. These peacfull protest grew fom these four men to ovbe 300 students over a time of five days. Months later Woolwoths storedesegregated its luinch counters and now offered seats at the lunch counter to blacks. This sparked protests and sit-ins all over the south to fight for equality between whites and blacks. I chose this store because four young men, not much older than us completely transformed a segregated town by one small protest. It shows the power that people can have when they come together and stand up for what is right.
This sit-in had such a large mpacton the Cvil Rights Movement that a piece of the Woolworths store lunch conter ws preserved and is eing kept in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. The fact that this sit-in made such and impact o the Civil Rights Movement really shows that standing up for your rights can be successful and itchanged ur country for the better. The Greensboro four made such an impact of the rights of African Americans that they turned Woolworth's store into The International Civil Rights Center & Museum.
While you're in Greensboro...
- jump on one of the 35 rides at the Wet 'N Wild Emerald Pointe Water Park
- go to the Greensboro Children's Museum
- have a lovely italian meal at a Greensboro Japanese restaurant
- go fishing or have a picnic at the Oka T. Hester Park
- catch a Greensboro Grasshoppers baseball game