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Celebrating Black History - The Greensboro Four
Celebrating Black History - The Greensboro Four
On this day in 1960, an organized sit-in at was staged at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Named the Greensboro Four, Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil were the young Black men who originally staged the protest. This event started a series of sit-ins that forced other establishments to revoke their segregation policies.
Read this article from History.com to learn more about the Greensboro Sit-in.
In collaboration with the Kennedy Catholic Black Student Union
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