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An act of defiance that changed history
http://www.news-record.com/content/2010/01/31/article/an_act_of_def...
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David Richmond (left to right), Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeil leave the Woolworth store on Feb. 1, 1960.
GREENSBORO - Fifty years ago, African Americans in Greensboro and across the South lived in a separate, but not necessarily equal, society.
On Feb. 1, 1960, that started to change. That day, the wall of segregation that divided blacks and whites began to crumble.
It happened on South Elm Street in Greensboro.
About 4:30 p.m., four freshmen from what is now N.C. A&T sat down at the whites-only lunch counter at the F.W. Woolworth store and asked for service.
When the waitress refused, the students remained seated.
Their act of defiance changed history, set off the sit-in movement that swept the South and paved the way for a series of changes that transformed American society.
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It was.
In the summer of 1961, at the behest of our Company Commander, I and my best friend made a run from El Paso, TX to Louisville, KY with a fellow soldier who was black. We were in a 1957 Ford and hung Army uniforms in the back windows and set out. The Freedom rider busses were being burned at that time. We had three minor incedents along the way, but nothing we could not handle. We figured that the Ford could outrun anything on the road so weren't too worried. But the reactions in Arkansas, Tenn. and Kentucky and were interesting.
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