Four students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College requested service at a segregated Woolworth lunch counter and remained after refusal. Their action developed into a wider campaign. Student initiative confronted commercial institutions enforcing racial exclusion and inspired organizing across the South.
Log in om dit verhaal leuk te vinden of te bookmarken.
🔖 Bookmarken
Organisaties in dit Evenement
Nog geen afbeeldingen of video's voor deze gebeurtenis.
Gerelateerde evenementen
What institution did the Greensboro students directly challenge?
🎉😄
😢
Uitleg
They requested service and remained after refusal, beginning a sustained campaign against segregation.
The Greensboro students were served without discrimination on the first day of their sit-in.
🎉😄
😢
Uitleg
They remained after being refused service; desegregation followed months of campaigning.