# data[].attributes.body
https://www.ushistory.org/us/54d.asp

https://www.crmvet.org/images/imgcoll.htm

https://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in

# data[].attributes.body
14th Amendment-the Supreme Court ruled that segregated seating on public transit violated the 14th amendment.

# data[].attributes.body
how other people judge blacks and how blacks viewed other.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Sit-In was a critical turning point in black history and American history, bringing the fight for civil rights to the national stage. Its use of nonviolence inspired the Freedom Riders and others to take up the cause of integration in the South, furthering the cause of equal rights in the United States.

# data[].attributes.body
Plessy v. Ferguson - marked the beginning of a 58-year period where Jim Crow was largely unchallenged and condoned by the federal government.

Brown v. Board of Education - was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.

# data[].attributes.body
Sept. 3, 1957-Greensboro becomes the first city in the Southeast to desegregate its all-white public schools when five black children enroll at Gillespie Park School.
Feb. 1, 1960-Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil and Franklin McCain launch the Greensboro sit-ins. In just two months, the sit-in movement spreads to 54 cities in nine states. After passing by Ralph Johns store on Market Street, the four A&T students enter the Elm Street Woolworth at 4 p.m., purchasing school supplies and other items. They then approach the lunch counter and order coffee at 4:30 p.m., they are refused service. The four remain in their seats until closing at 5:30 p.m.
Feb. 6, 1960-More than 500 students jam the Woolworth and Kress stores and the sidewalks in downtown Greensboro.

# data[].attributes.body
CORE-The Congress of Racial Equality is an African American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
SNCC-The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, or SNCC, was one of the key organizations in the American civil rights movement of the 1960s. SNCC sought to coordinate youth led nonviolent, direct action campaigns against segregation and other forms of racism.

# data[].attributes.body
Joseph Alfred McNeil is a retired major general in the United States Air Force who is best known for being a member of the Greensboro Four; a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.

# data[].attributes.body
Franklin Eugene McCain is one of the original four who took part in the Woolworth sit-in on February 1, 1960 in Greensboro, North Carolina. Franklin Eugene McCain was born in Union County, North Carolina, in 1942, and raised in Washington, D.C. He graduated from Eastern High School in 1959 and attended North Carolina A&T State University. McCain and three other A&T freshmen, now known as the Greensboro Four. McCain graduated from A&T with a degree in chemistry and biology.

# data[].attributes.body
David Leinail Richmond was a civil rights activist for most of his life, but he was best known for being one of the Greensboro Four. Richmond was a student at North Carolina A&T during the time of the Greensboro protests, but never ended up graduating from A&T.

# data[].attributes.body
Jibreel Khazan a civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four, a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina.

# data[].attributes.body
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a Baptist minister and social rights activist in the United States in the 1950s and '60s. He was a leader of the American civil rights movement. He organized a number of peaceful protests as head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, including the famous March on Washington.

# data[].attributes.body
Major leaders of the sit-ins were Martin Luther King, Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil.

# data[].attributes.body
By 1960, the Civil Rights Movement had gained strong momentum. The nonviolent measures employed by Martin Luther King Jr. helped African American activists win supporters across the country and throughout the world. February 1, 1960, a new tactic was added to the peaceful activists' strategy. Four African American college students walked up to a whites-only lunch counter at the local woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked for coffee. When service was refused, the students sat patiently. Despite threats and intimidation, the students sat quietly and waited to be served. The civil rights sit-in was born.