Day after day in 1960, a group of courageous African-American college students refused to leave the segregated lunch counter of a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, North Carolina. They endured taunts and threats from angry whites, who tossed lit cigarettes, food and drinks at them.
But they kept showing up – eventually sparking a flood of student sit-ins at lunch counters across the United States. Today they are remembered as heroes of a key turning point in the civil rights movement.
http://news.rutgers.edu/feature/geo...o-lunch-counter-sit-ins/20151025#.Vi6LL0bD_mG
But they kept showing up – eventually sparking a flood of student sit-ins at lunch counters across the United States. Today they are remembered as heroes of a key turning point in the civil rights movement.
http://news.rutgers.edu/feature/geo...o-lunch-counter-sit-ins/20151025#.Vi6LL0bD_mG
