Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-In Talk (Opening Song)

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  • Опубликовано: 3 сен 2012
  • The Greensboro Lunch Counter identifies the American ideals wing of the National Museum of American History (2nd Floor, East Wing Corridor).
    This section of the Woolworth's lunch counter with 4 stools from Greensboro, North Carolina, represents the February 1, 1960 sit-in that challenged segregated eating places. On February 1, 1960, four African American students -- Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin E. McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David L. Richmond -- sat down at this counter and politely asked for service. Their request was refused. When asked to leave, they remained in their seats. They were all enrolled at the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. Their "passive sit-down demand" began one of the first sustained sit-ins and ignited a youth-led movement to challenge injustice and racial inequality throughout the South. See February 2010 Smithsonian magazine, pp. 28-29.
    This is part of a Sit-In Talk / Re-enactment of 1960's Sit-In.
    Very educational and moving.
    PS: Please forgive the shakiness at the beginning of the video. I was trying to find where the voice was coming from but I couldn't see the person singing.

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