,. ,. We decided to walk to the counter and without a single word that is how it happened. But we took a seat. University professor speaks to us about the lunch counter sit in. So who were the greensboro for and why did they decide to sit down at that counter and that february day in 1960. Thank you for having me those were four young men who are college freshman, at North Carolina at the state university. Three of them had already met in high school. So they already had a report, they met the fourth as a freshman in college. So actually when thinking about Racial Injustice is theyd think about that how to integrate how to push the movement along for sometime now but it wasnt until, Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959, when he refused to neil, and train terminal. He was trying to buy a hotdog. And he gets back to campus, and he is emboldened. He says enough is enough. So him in his four friends, decide that they are going to target the wool worse, and go
And i think bennett is a good place to be. I think bennett can become a haven for at least 900 little girls, to make them into big women. Thats what i work to do. And i dont plan to be here forever, to have another career, but its certainly a good thing to do on the days that i am here. Four africanamerican students sat down at a segregated woolworths lunch counter in greensboro, North Carolina. Over the next hour, American History tv and cspans washing at thernal, look back sit ins and protest during that time. Our guest joining us live is traci parker, author and university of massachusetts amherst professor. That is live in a moment here on cspan 3. At 1960 look at events in when we walked into the store, we wanted to prove that we were customers. And made a notebook sure to get receipts. We mulled around in the store, just trying to get some fix on where we work and what we were about to do. Anxiety having some would not get to hire me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel