The Greensboro Four-Sit-Ins by Audrey Natale https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins en-us 2016-05-24 15:32:23 UTC 2026-01-22 18:42:28 UTC hello@padlet.com The Lunch Counter At Woolworth's  https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112360727 2016-05-24 15:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112360727 First Person: Sitting-in at the Lunch Counter audreyannenatale1 https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112361205 2016-05-24 15:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112361205 https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112361221 2016-05-24 15:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112361221 Joseph McNeil https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112361590 2016-05-24 15:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112361590 Treated Unfairly https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112519517 As the four sat at the counter food was dumped on and thrown at them by the white customers. ]]> 2016-05-25 13:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112519517 The four African-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College decided to stand up for themselves and sit at the counters at Woolworth's lunch counter.  https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112544092 2016-05-25 15:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112544092 Woolworth's Drug Store was racially discriminatory against African-Americans mixing in with the white customers at the lunch counter . White people were treated with more respect and received service at the lunch counter. When the four sat at the counter they were refused service and treated with disrespect. https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112544705   

]]> 2016-05-25 15:34:00 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112544705 White customers would dump fried eggs and drinks as well as itching powder on the four African-Americans during their sit-in. At one point someone threw a bottle of ammonia through the store door so people would have to leave because it would start to affect them. https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112547107

]]> 2016-05-25 15:44:40 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112547107 When a caller threatened to bomb the store, the manager closed the store. The mayor asked the black students to call off the protest for two weeks and they meet with local business to work out a solution. The solution resulted in African-American freedoms in downtown Greensboro.  https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112547531 2016-05-25 15:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112547531 Greensboro Four:Ezell Blair Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112547881 2016-05-25 15:48:42 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112547881 Within a couple of months many joined in and started protesting. The protests consisted of people working to get equal treatment at Woolworth's. The protests lasted over two months. https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112548158 2016-05-25 15:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112548158 First sit-in at lunch counter occurs in 1960 https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112549117 2016-05-25 15:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112549117 https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112549914 2016-05-25 15:58:21 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112549914 https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112550579
]]> 2016-05-25 16:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112550579 https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112550626 2016-05-25 16:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112550626 Ezell Blair  https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112551239 2016-05-25 16:04:26 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112551239 Greensboro Four Sit-In https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112551426 2016-05-25 16:05:23 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112551426 Greensboro Woolworth Sit-In 50th Anniversary https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112708602 2016-05-26 15:31:51 UTC https://padlet.com/audreyannenatale1/thegreensborofoursitins/wish/112708602