I have to confess that I’m probably not my first choice for writing this kind of diary. First, I’m not that good of a diarist. Second, my personal experience of this topic is pretty superficial and removed from much direct knowledge, but I thought I would take a stab at it since no one else has diaried about today’s date in history.
On this date in 1960, four young black men from A&T University walked into the Woolworth’s on Elm Street In Greensboro, NC, and after doing a bit of shopping, they sat down at the all-white lunch counter and asked to be served. They were refused, so they stayed on their stools until the store closed. They came back the next day with a couple more students, and as the days went by, more and more people joined them. The tactic spread nationwide, and while the Woolworth’s in Greensboro eventually integrated it’s lunch counter, the result was not the same everywhere. But the struggle continued.
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