Greensboro Four Launch Sit-In Movement at Woolworth Lunch Counter Challenging Segregation

On February 1, 1960, at 4:30 PM, four African American freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University—Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil—sat down at the whites-only lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth Company store in Greensboro, North …