1 Feb 1960 Jahr - Greensboro, NC sit0ns

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The battle for civil rights entered a new phase in Greensboro, North Carolina. On February 1, 1960, four black college students took seats at the whites-only lunch counter of a Woolworth’s drugstore in Greensboro, North Carolina. Planning late at night in their dorm rooms, the students resolved to “sit in” at the counter until they were served. The New York–based Woolworth’s chain announced it would “abide by local custom,” which meant refusing to serve African Americans. For three weeks, hundreds of students inspired by the original foursome took turns sitting at the counters, quietly eating, doing homework, or reading. Taunted and beaten by groups of whites, pelted with food and other debris, the black students — often occupying more than sixty of the sixty-six seats — held strong. Although many were arrested, the tactic worked: the Woolworth’s lunch counter was desegregated, and sit-ins quickly spread to other southern cities

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