Facts on 1 February
1990 - 30th Anniversary Sit-In Reenactment at Greensboro Woolworth

On February 1, 1990, Joseph McNeil, Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair Jr.), Franklin McCain, and David Richmond—known as the Greensboro Four—returned to the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of their historic 1960 sit-in. They marked the occasion by having breakfast at the same lunch counter where they had launched one of the most influential acts of civil disobedience in the Civil Rights Movement.

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