On February 1, 1960, four Black students from North Carolina A&T College—Joseph McNeil, Jibreel Khazan (Ezell Blair Jr.), Franklin McCain, and David Richmond—began a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their peaceful protest ignited a wave of similar demonstrations, and by February 10, the sit-in movement had spread to 15 Southern cities across five states.
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