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February 1, 1960 changed that. The Greensboro Four were close friends at North Carolina A&T University, and two of the four had grown up where segregation was not legal, while another’s father ...
Feb 1, 2003 · February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four. On February 1, 1960, four college students - Ezell Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan ), David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil - sat ...
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Country. United States. Language. English. February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four is a 2003 documentary film by Rebecca Cerese and Steven Channing. Nationally broadcast on Independent Lens on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, four young college freshman, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Ezell Blair, Jr ...
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- English
- Rebecca Cerese, Steven Channing
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- Greensboro Sit-In Took Months of Planning
- The 'Bennett Belles' Join The Sit-Ins
- The Sit-In Movements Spreads
- Success at Greensboro Sparks More Student Activism
The Greensboro sit-in wasn’t a random act of rebellion, but the result of months of planning. The students had received guidance from mentor activists and collaborated with students from Greensboro's all-women's Bennett College. They also took inspiration from civil rights causes of years earlier, including the 1955 lynching of Emmett Till and the ...
In late 1959, the Greensboro Four participated in NAACP meetings at Bennett College, where they collaborated with the women students known as the Bennett Belleson a plan. The Belles resolved to serve as look-outs when the four men took their seats at the lunch counter on the first day. “They had a strong Black community in Greensboro that was steep...
Word quickly spread about the Greensboro sit-in, and both North Carolina A&T and Bennett College students took part in the sit-in the next day. As the week unfolded, dozens of young people, including students from the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, flocked to lunch counters and asked to be served. “We even had people who saw t...
It took months, but on July 25, 1960, the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter was finally integrated. Counters in other cities did the same in subsequent months. In addition to desegregating dining establishments, the sit-ins led to the creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Raleigh. Activist Ella Baker, then director of the So...
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Jan 1, 2006 · February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four, 61 minutes; VHS or DVD, California Newsreel, Executive Producer: Dr. Steven Channing. On February 1, 1960, four first-year African American students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the Woolworth's drug store in downtown Greensboro, sat at the whites-only lunch counter, and demanded that they be served on the ...
- Timothy N. Thurber
- 2006
Dec 1, 2005 · February One is the dramatic story of the Greensboro sit-ins that reenergized the fledgling civil rights movement of the 1960s. Based largely on firsthand accounts and rare archival footage, this documentary recounts how four determined young black men conceived and initiated a direct response to the existing segregation laws that served as a ...
Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil began a sit-in at a white only lunch counter in Greensboro. This act of bravery is noted as one of the vital moments in the American Civil Rights Movement. Offering a portrait of how four young men whose courage at led other non-violent protests through the 60's. On February 1 ...
