# data[].attributes.body
Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil were the participants in the sit-in also known as the Greensboro Four.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Sit-in was a protest against segregated restaurants.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Sit-In was protesting that African-Americans were denied service at a lunch counter. Its purpose was to change segregationist policies in establishments

# data[].attributes.body
Young african amweicans including  Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil

# data[].attributes.body
Young African American students who were denied service in a cafeteria

# data[].attributes.body
Franklin McCain
Emmet Till
Ralph Johns

# data[].attributes.body
Those of a young group of African-American students staged this sit-in. The main students to first sit down was a group of four young black men. Their names were Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Frankliin McCain and Joseph McNeil, all in which were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Sit-In was protesting a lunch counter that didn't serve African-Americans.

# data[].attributes.body
The sit-in was protest was a protest against segregation and the refusal of service of black people in public places such as restaurants.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Four protested the segregation laws at the college they attended, and were inspired by the peaceful protests of the Freedom Rides demonstrating people's right to desegregated interstate travel.

# data[].attributes.body
Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. And many other young African Americans in college towns.

# data[].attributes.body
Many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace.

# data[].attributes.body
The four students were protesting the acts of segregation that took place in their school.

# data[].attributes.body
Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil, who were all students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College.

# data[].attributes.body
The sit-in started to spread to college towns and the protesters were often arrested.  Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil were four of the protesters that staged the sit- in in Greensboro.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Sit-In Protesting was when four African-Americans refused to give up their seats at a lunch counter. This resulted in a nation-wide protest of African-Americans not giving up their spaces for whites.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Sit-In was a segregational protest that spread among college students after 4 African American men sat in a segregated restaurant and refused to leave until served. This gave owners the need to change their racial policies without violence.

# data[].attributes.body
The first few people to be a part of the sit in were  Blair, Richmond, McCain and McNeil

# data[].attributes.body
Within 4 days, 300 students across the nation had joined the protest.

# data[].attributes.body
The students were inspired by Mohandas Ghandi, who used nonviolent protest techniques

# data[].attributes.body
The protest had eventually spread so far that the Greensboro lunch counter became integrated, and four black employees were the first to be served.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Sit-In was a segregation protest which was done to prevent the owners from denying African Americans the right to eat at restaurants.

# data[].attributes.body
The four students began their protest with cautious. The gained help from a local white businessman, this man was Ralph Johns, he helped but the students plan into action.

# data[].attributes.body
The main influence on the sit-in was the 🤬 of a young black boy, Emmett Till

# data[].attributes.body
By the end of March the movement had spread to 55 cities in 13 states.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro sit in was an event originally orchestrated by 4 local black teens, who wanted to see a change in how business/ restaurants treated colored customers. Their actions gained traction with the media and inspired many more people to join in the protest, while many were arrested, the impacts it had caused permanent changes in the way the restaurant industry values customers.

# data[].attributes.body
These sit-ins were a non-violent way to protest against segregation and  brought increasing attention to the civil rights movement.

# data[].attributes.body
At the end of July, when many local college students were on summer vacation, the Greensboro Woolworth’s quietly integrated its lunch counter.

# data[].attributes.body
The Greensboro Sit-In was done by young African American students including Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil.

# data[].attributes.body
It was protesting about segregation many people were arrested for this act.

# data[].attributes.body
4 days into the protest over 300 people have alreday helped protest with them.