Grade Range: 5-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 7/20/2012
In this post, students will learn about the Greensboro Four, college freshmen who sat down at the whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina and asked to be served. Students will also learn why that lunch counter is currently on exhibit at the Museum. This post is published on the Museum's "O Say Can You See?" blog.
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students--Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Kha...
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Connie, a fictional young girl, witnesses the student sit-ins at the lunchcounter in Greensboror,...
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