Sixty years ago, four African-American students quietly sat down in a white Woolworth bar in Greensboro, North Carolina and waited.
They were still waiting, although they had not received any service and requests to leave. The next day they came back and waited again.
Within three days of starting the protest, over 300 students joined the Greensboro Four on their sit-in. In the following months, their actions sparked a wave of similar demonstrations in restaurants and other isolated places in the south, changing the fight against segregation from Jim Crow's time and setting a turning point in the civil rights movement.
“I confess I do not believe in time. I like to fold my magic carpet, after use, in such a way as to superimpose one part of the pattern upon another. Let visitors trip. And the highest enjoyment of timelessness―in a landscape selected at random―is when I stand among rare butterflies and their food plants.- nabokov
Saturday, February 1, 2020
60 years ago, black students staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter.
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