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Fifty years ago today:
Sitting for Justice: Woolworths Lunch Counter
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South.
excerpted from:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html
Sitting for Justice: Woolworths Lunch Counter
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students sat down at a lunch counter at Woolworths in Greensboro, North Carolina, and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Their passive resistance and peaceful sit-down demand helped ignite a youth-led movement to challenge racial inequality throughout the South.
excerpted from:
http://americanhistory.si.edu/Brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html
What brave and wonderful people who stood up for basic human respect!
We should never underestimate that .....
So brave of those students....To stand up for their human rights....
So wrong of those who tried to deprive them of them...