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History & Hope: Former Woolworth busboy recounts memory of sit-in at North Carolina restaurant Share Updated: 11:52 AM PST Feb 27, 2021 Briana Conner Share Updated: 11:52 AM PST Feb 27, 2021
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Show Transcript DAVONTE: TONIGHT ON WXII 12, OUR BRIANA CONNER SPEAKS WITH A MAN. WHO WITNESSED THE BEGINNING OF THE SIT-IN MOVEMENT. THAT MOVEMENT EVENTUALLY LED TO DE-SEGREGATION IN AMERICA. CHARLES BESS WAS A BUS BOY AT THE GREENSBORO, WOOLWORTH STORE. HE JOINS BRIANA AT THE ORIGINAL LUNCH COUNTER TO EXPLAIN HOW WE CAN KEEP HISTORY FROM REPEATING REPEATING ITSELF. CHARLES I’M GLAD TO BE ALIVE TO : TELL THE STORY OF THE SIT IN MOVEMENT. I’M GLAD. I JUST PRAISE THE LORD THAT I’ HERE TO TELL THE STORY. DAVONTE: AND QUITE A STORY TO TELL. YOU CAN CATCH THIS LATEST STORY IN THE HISTORY AND HOPE SERIES
Sixty-one years ago this month, four North Carolina A&T first-year students walked through downtown Greensboro and “sat-in” at the Woolworth s whites–only lunch counter and asked to be served. The students refused to leave even after they were denied service and stayed until the store closed. Behind the counter, 23-year-old Charles Bess was working at the restaurant as a busboy during the sit-ins. Bess is now 83 years old but still reflects on what happened in Woolworth s when he was a young man, and what he believes still needs to happen today. Every time when a waitress would tell them we don t serve colored people here, they ignored it and kept on sitting and asking for coffee, Bess recalled. I never heard them asking for nothing else but coffee. Everyone was looking at each other wondering what was happening. I was standing close by and I wondered what was going on? Bess was proud of what unfolded that day. Across the nation, there is another new generation of yo
Four North Carolina A&T freshmen students walked through downtown Greensboro and “sat-in” at the Woolworth's whites–only lunch counter and asked to be served.
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