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spazzmann

(748 posts)
Fri Feb 1, 2013, 12:09 PM Feb 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on February 1, 1960


Four black college students sat down at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and were refused service because of their race. To protest the segregation of the eating facilities, they remained and sat-in at the lunch counter until the store closed. http://bit.ly/VsLsEF

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