Greensboro+sit-ins

Greensboro Sit-ins The sit-ins were very significant to the movement. They symbolized a change in the mood of African-American people. Up until then, we had accepted segregation, begrudgingly, but we had accepted it. We had spoken against it, we had made speeches, but no one had defied segregation. At long last after decades of acceptance, four freshman students at North Carolina A&T went into Woolworth and at the lunch counter they "sat-in." All four would emerge unscathed and eventually be recognized as heroes of the civil rights movement.

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