Remembering the 'Richmond 34' and the ‘Greensboro Four’

Remembering the 'Richmond 34' and the ‘Greensboro Four’

Protesters remember the sit-ins that helped change America.

Hat Tip: Linda Shevitz and Jean Lewis, Carroll County NAACP

Reba Hollingsworth, Staff reporter February 11 2010

RICHMOND -- In 1960, the tension from the civil rights movement issimmering throughout the south. Young black college students and somewhites challenged the laws of segregation.

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Monday February 1, 1960 - “Greensboro Four”

Readers may also appreciate reading about the “Greensboro Four,” which is thought by many to have been the genesis of the 1960s sit-in actions… http://tinyurl.com/yfz3a4q

February 3, 2010 Standing up by sitting down Kevin E. Dayhoff

On Monday February 1, 1960, four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into the historic 1929 F. W. Woolworth Five-and-Dime building at 301 North Elm Street in Greensboro, N.C., and ordered lunch.

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Kevin Dayhoff is a writer with Explore Carroll – Patuxent Publishing Co., a subsidiary publication of the Baltimore Sun and is a life-member of the NAACP

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http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2010/02/remembering-richmond-34-and-greensboro.html http://tinyurl.com/yfz3a4q

Remembering the 'Richmond 34' and the ‘Greensboro Four’ http://tinyurl.com/yfz3a4q

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