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On Feb. 1, 1960 four Black college students conducted a nonviolent protest at the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, instructed to just sit at the counter and wait to be served.The simple, peaceful act enacted major change not only with the desegregation of lunch counters at Woolworth, but with the integration of dining locations across the South. By July of that year, the Woolworth lunch counter was serving Black patrons, instead of relegating them to a standing snack counter at the back.The success of the sit-in led to other similar peaceful protests staged in cities across the United States, garnering major media attention.As the National Museum of African American History and Culture
stanley termoska put it, Black Americans have held onto a tradition of activism through the pages of the story of the United States to challenge America to live up to its democratic ideals. OTD in 1960, 4 African American students attending @ncatsuaggies staged the first sit-in at the Woolworth s lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. Learn more about the African American tradition of activism on our Searchable Museum:
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