about that how to integrate how to push the movement along for sometime now but it wasn't until, joseph mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959, when he refused to neil, and train terminal. he was trying to buy a hotdog. and he gets back to campus, and he is emboldened. he says enough is enough. so him in his four friends, decide that they are going to target the wool worse, and go have a seat in. what i found interesting, is why will worse? well worse was a five and dime store, that many people of a certain age still remember it was a chain discount department store. and it was recognizable because it was a chain across the united states and so there is a way in which you can recognize and see yourself and if you wanted to replicate a similar movement you could. but also will worse like many department stores at the time, operated a very contradictory policy when it came to african americans. they were free to enter brows and purchase, however they were not allowed to eat at the lunch cower or lunch counter or other facilities they couldn't try on a return close, they were

but it wasn't until joseph mcneil is returning to school after christmas break in 1959, when he is refused a meal at a greyhound train terminal. he is just trying to buy a hotdog. and he gets back to campus, and he is emboldened. he says enough is enough, and so him and his four friends said they are going to target the wall worths and go stage a sit into desegregate eating facilities in greensboro, north carolina. what i find interesting is y.a. woolworth's. wool worths was a five in time that many people of a certain age probably still remember. it was a chain discount department store. and it was recognizable because it is a chain across the united states to people. there is a way in which you can recognize it and see yourself in, it and if you wanted to replicate a similar movement, you could. but also, will worth, slack many department stores of the time, operated a very contradictory policy when it came to african americans. they were free to enter, brows, and purchase. however, they were not allowed to eat at lunch counters or other eating facilities. they couldn't use beauty shops.

so on february 1, 1960, these four college freshmen, ezel blair, joseph mcneil, david richmond and franklin mccain decided after a conversation in the dormitory room the night before that they not only did not like the fact that woolworths was segregated, but they were going to do something about it. and is so they walked -- they didn't even march, they walked down to woolworths the next day, and they decided to stage a sit-in. and i don't know where they got the idea of the sit-in. there had been sit-ins before, but they decided, this is a way of nonviolently protesting the segregation of the woolworths store. they walked in, and they had no idea what they were going to expect. they had no idea what greeting was going to meet them. they sat at the stools, and, of course, here's the problem. according to the segregationist ordinances, black folks are not supposed to come in and sit at the lunch counter. they're supposed to come and give an order and then get whatever they get and leave. usually at a back door. but these kids decided they were going to come and they were going to sit at the