109+Greensburo+Sit+ins

109 Greensburo Sit ins Alex Matuesz Nathan Tristan

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On Feb. 1, 1960, four African-American students from historically black college [|Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina] sat down at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their names are ===== [|David Leinail Richmond] [|Joseph Alfred McNeil] [|Franklin Eugene McCain] [|Jibreel Khazan (Ezell Blair Jr.)]

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A week after the Greensboro sit-in, students in other North Carolina towns did similar sit-ins. These demonstrations spread to towns near Greensboro, Winston-Salem, Durham, Raleigh, and Charlotte. The movement soon spread to other cities all across the South. =====