The Greensboro Sit-Ins: Nearly Four Decades Ago, Four Well-Mannered, Well-Dressed, and Courteous Black College Kids Launched a Lunch Counter Revolution in the United States

The Greensboro Sit-ins: Nearly Four Decades Ago, Four Well-Mannered, Well-Dressed, and Courteous Black College Kids Launched a Lunch Counter Revolution in the United States

After the successful Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott of 1955 and 1956 and the integration of Little Rock Central High School in Arkansas in 1957, the civil rights movement had come to a standstill. But on February 1, 1960, four 17-year-old freshmen at North Carolina A&T University in Greensboro decided to reignite the movement. In an act of unusual courage, four black students --Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr.,...