Sitting for Equal Service

"We were hoping [the sit-in] would catch on and it would spread throughout the country, but it went even beyond our wildest imagination."―Ezell Blair Jr., North Carolina Agricultural & Technical college studentOn February 1, 1960, four black college students sat down at the whites-only lunch counter in a Woolworth''s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The young men knew the waitress c...