On This Day..Feb. 1, 1960 Four Freshmen STOPPED jimCrow Racism and STARTED Civil Rights Act USA
Racial segregation was still legal in the United States on February 1, 1960,
Courageous African American Freshman college students Jibreel Khazan,
Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond at the North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical College when they began their protest.
They sat down at the Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Asking for service at this “whites only” counter, their request was refused.
This protest led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which finally
outlawed racial segregation in public accommodations.
Courageous African American Freshman college students Jibreel Khazan,
Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond at the North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical College when they began their protest.
They sat down at the Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
Asking for service at this “whites only” counter, their request was refused.
This protest led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which finally
outlawed racial segregation in public accommodations.
The manager of the Woolworth’s store requested that they leave the premises. After leaving
the store, the students told campus leaders at Agricultural and Technical what had happened.
The next morning twenty-nine neatly dressed male and female North Carolina Agricultural
and Technical students sat at the Woolworth’s lunch counter.
Soon crowds of students were mobbing local lunch counters.
As the protests grew, opposition grew vociferous. Crowds of white men began appearing at
lunch counters to harass the protesters, often by spitting, uttering abusive language, and
throwing eggs. In one case, a protester’s coat was set on fire, and the assailant was arrested.
...As an avid Woolworth patron in the North...I thank you for YOUR COURAGE
YOU made it possible in 1964 For President Johnson to SIGN the CIVIL RIGHTS act...