While the February 1960 sit-in at Greensboro’s F.W. Woolworth store downtown is well known, fewer people are knowledgeable about a second round of protests that escalated in Greensboro in the Spring of 1963. A number of Woman’s College (WC) students participated in the 1960 sit-ins, but the 1963 movement hit the students of WC a […]
Category: Sit-ins
Woolworth Prior to the 1960s, all public accommodations in the South were segregated including hotels, restaurants, restrooms, theaters, water fountains, and lunch counters. African Americans could buy food at some lunch counters and take the food out, but they could not sit at the counters to eat. On Monday, February 1, 1960, four North Carolina […]
