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Greensboro Sit-in!

By: Rebecca and Lulu

Summary

It all started on Febuar 1, the year of 1960. There were four men all the race of African American. There names were Jibreel Khazan, Franklin Eugene McCain, David Leinall Richard, and Joseph Alfreed McNell. Jibreel gradguated from Dudly high School. He also was the president of his junior class. He gradguated from Eastern high School in Washington. Josheph was He gradguated from Williston Senior High School. David gradguated from Dudley high School also. All of these young men had gotten a degree from where they gradguated which gave them the opportunity to get a job. That means that these four kids were very smart and must have been knowing what they were doing when they walked into the Woolworth store, and started the Greensboro sit-in. This lunch counter only had stool and chairs for whites while blacks had to stand while they ate.

The blacks also weren't offered any service but they were alloed to stay at the counter. The manager wasn't othered by this because he thought they would just sit and leave. He thought that nothing like this was ever going to happen like this again because this became a non-violevce act that spread all over the United States. As the days went on more and more students came to Woolworth lunch counter for the sit-in. By July the Grennboro four were served lunch at the same Woolworth store.

The Greensborob sit-ins was an action in the African American Civil-Rights Movement leading to increase national sentiment at a hard period in American history.

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Who participated in the Greensboro Sit-in?

In total there were over 17,00 people whjo joined the Sit-in.The four men who had the courage to walk into the Woolsworth store were Jibreel Khazan, Franklin Eugene, Josheph Alfred Mcneil, and David Leinail Richmond. These four men were called the Greensboro four. The name became popular around the city of Greensboro. They were publshed in the newspaper many times n that period of time. This act involved other stores in the district of Greensboro. I mean this because this act integrated many other stores and really made a imbacton the lives of many a

frican Americans in the state of North Caolina.

The Sit-ins became popular and popular. The Sit-ins act spread through many other states and even cities.

The day after the Greensboro four had entered the Woolsworth store, 27 students arrived the next day there, standing up for what they believed in. The manager of the Woolsworth store did not mind this much because he knew that nothing like this would ever happen again.

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What was the Sit-in Of Greensboro?

This was a major act for the Civil Rights act. And played a large roll in it too. This act integradted many stores and places around the United States.This act symbolized a change in the mood of many African Americans. By letting people know that blacks deserved a place to eat a place to feel welcome just as any other citizen of the United States of America. As a direct definition the term Sit-ins meant, When people get to gether and wil sit in one particular area that they think is being unjust to peoples skin color. And they will sit and sit and sit. Sometimes poeple will get arrested but it dosen't bother them they know what there doing is rigth and is just!

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When Did the Sit-in of Greensboro happen?

This event took place on the year of 1960. The date was July 1st, 1960. The time when the Greensboro four had walked into the Woolsworth store was at 4:00 p.m. They ordered coffee at 4:30 p.m.. The time that they left was arounf 5:00 p.m., but they had only left because the store was closing. Who knows how long they would have stayed if the store never closed?

Where did the Sit-in of Greensboro happen?

The Sit-in of Greensboro North Carolina took place at the local Woolsworth store. The store was in The city of Greensboro and the state of North Carolina. The sit-in also spread to many stores and integrated them! The sit-in technique was then used all over the united States. This Sit in didn't just make a change in North Carolina but the United States!

why did the Greensboro Sit-in take place?

It all started with one thougth, one thought that would change the thinking of the Civil-Rights and this is whta that thought was. "I'm going to talk to you tonight of the spiritual crisis which the couth and it's people are facing. We have been in ordeal a long time and have had outbursts of violence and local crisis again and again; in Little Rock, Mountgumary, clinton, Nashville Tallahasse and other spots in the South. So tonight were doing this to prove our just!!!

http://greenspace.blogspot.com/2005/02/lillian-smith-ongreenboro-sit-in.html

Our position on the COnfederate flag is and always will be against it. We are both against it beacasue it symbolizes racism in the United States.

The Georgia state flag changed in 1956 beacsue it wasn't just for all of the African Americans in Georgia's, so it was chnaged. The Georgia state flag should have chnaged. Our flag symbolizes the peach for Georgia, the stars for our states and the words faith, wisdom, and freedom are on there because we have faith in God, wisdom because our state has to have wisdom to strive to be the best we can be, lastly freedom for our liberty and to have the rights to do what we want. We have the words "God we Trust" because it is on our dollar bills. We think that the symbols on our flag are the most important symbols that charactorize Georgia.