Anxiety having some would not get to hire me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my sweat coming off the side of my face. Didnt have to ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and of bus looked at the counter at the same time. We just started to walk toward the counter. Without a single word. That is how it happened. Guest thank you for having me three of them had met in high school. They had met before. They were not thinking about injustices, and how to push the movement along, but it was not until Joseph Mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959 when he greyhound meal at a roof he is refused a meal at a greyhound terminal. Iss just trying to did he emboldened. He and his four friends decide theyre going to target the sit in ats and go segregated eating facilities in greensboro, North Carolina. What i find interesting is why woolworths . And dime. S was a five many people of a certain age probably still remember. It was a chain Discount Depar
,. ,. 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
I brought a notebook and made 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. I was having some anxiety get to me. I felt my temperature increase. I could feel my sweat coming off the side of my face. I didnt have to ask joe what he was thinking. We looked at each other and of bus looked at the counter at the same time. We just started to walk toward the counter. Without a single word. That is how it happened. Chair nadler host traci parker joins us now for a discussion about the lunch counter sitins of 1960. Traci parker, who with the who were the greensboro four and why did they decide to sit down at that woolworths lunch counter . In that february day in 1960 . Thank you for having me. Those were young men who were just College Freshmen at North Carolina state university. Three of them had already met in high school. And so, already had a rapport. They met the fourth as freshman in college. In college. E
You can send us a text at 2027488003 and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. A very good sunday morning to you. We take you to the coronavirus dashboard from Johns Hopkins university. The numbers 10 million cases worldwide, the United States counting for a quarter of those and 125,000 deaths. Amid renewed focus on the spread of this virus we are talking about masks this morning asking if you wear them. The topic came up friday at a hearing of the House Oversight committee. This is congressman jamie raskin talking to his fellow republican green. Sman mark [video clip] the mask is not to protect me. It is to protect other people in the event i am infected and the majority of infections are of presymptomatic. We had members of congress who did not know they had it in any of us would do that if that were the rule. Why is this complicated . There is one thing we can do to protect other people. It does not cost us anything.
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