History of the United States II / Unit 14 USH2 1974 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Greensboro
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The idea
On February first, nineteen sixty, four Black students from North Carolina A and T sat at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro and refused to leave.
In practice
Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr. and David Richmond, in a sit-in that lasted six months.
Where people slip
Ella Baker said the students wanted more than a hamburger; the movement they began was about empowerment.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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