#josephmcneil

[thehbcunation]

What a way to spend the 4th in Greensboro... @bennett_college #DrWillPlayer Hall @sitinmuseum to share the importance and significance of the #A&TFour : #DavidRichmond #FeanklinMcCain #EzellBlairJr and #JosephMcNeil and to gear a lecture of the #14thAmendment and finally @ncatsuaggies #TheHBCUNation

[trascapades]

👏🏽✊🏽📷 #ArtIsAWeapon #BlackAmericanHeroes #Salute! From @nmaahc - On February 1, 1960, four African American students—Ezell Blair Jr. (now known as Jibreel Khazan), David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil—attending North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University staged the first sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. The sit-in garnered widespread media attention and sparked national attention, and inspired similar protests throughout the South, to target Jim Crow segregation from theaters to swimming pools. The students contacted a reporter, bought items at Woolworth's, and then sat at the lunch counter requesting service. After being refused they left, and returned the next day with other students. The protest spread to other stores in the city and across the state. The demonstrators were spat on, pelted with eggs, harassed, and arrested. Within a month lunch counters across North Carolina began desegregating. Presently, the Woolworth store is now known as the International Civil Rights Center and Museum. Its street location was renamed February One Place, in commemoration of the date of the first Greensboro sit-in. #APeoplesJourney #BlackHistoryMonth #OnThisDay 📸: Courtesy of Greensboro News and Record. #EzellBlair #JibreelKhazan #DavidRichmond #FranklinMcCain #JosephMcNeil #Resist #Protest #FightWhiteSupremacy #TraScapades #ArtIsAWeapon

[dscola]

On this date in 1960, four black college students, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, David Richmond and Ezell Blair, sat down at a “whites-only” lunch counter at a Woolworth’s in Greensboro, N.C., and refused to leave after being denied service. Additional students joined them over the following weeks and months, and sit-in protests spread through North Carolina to other states in the South. #josephmcneil #franklinmccain #davidrichmond #ezellblair #woolworthlunchcounter #lunchcountersitins #blackhidstory #thingstheydontteachyou #freedomfighters #blackrevolutionaries #greatblackmen #blacklivesmatter #makebeingblackinamericalegal #blackhistoryeveryday #civilrightsmovement

[splitpersonalityprod]

#FebruaryOne 1960 four courageous freshman staged a sit-in at #Woolworths in #Greensboro. The #GreensboroFour are #JosephMcNeil #DavidRichmond #FranklinMcCain & #EzellBlair (#JibreelKhazan). #Historic #InternationalCivilRightsMuseum #CivilRights #NCAT (at International Civil Rights Center & Museum)