the four young men that sat in hereo us about around where they sat. a lot of the things you will see here are the actual advertisements around different menu items they offered and prices. young gentlemen were franklin mccain,, joseph mcneil, david richman. they were freshmen at a historically black college and university here in greensboro, north carolina. they came to the woolworth store and sat at the lunch counter and ask to order some coffee and a piece of pie. the response was really mixed. you boys go on from here. another waitress was saying something like, you know we don't serve colored people here. they came to sit down, to take that first step in that demonstration going to be ongoi, and that other people were wanting to get involved. there were other adults, other students who said we want to be part of this. students from what is university of north carolina-greensboro bu they talked about being afraid, but they also talked about what i would fear is the way they finally decided to come here and take the step that day. they talked about