greensboro was not the first sitin. wichita where the first sitin took place and the difference is that it didn't take off in the sense of national media and people copy accounting it and so on. it didn't take off, but greensboro, it just happened to be everything came together and people got galvanized and imaginations got sparked and so there were sitins in south carolina and florida and all across the country after greensboro. the fight had just started in greensboro and, ok, what are we going to do about these other restaurants and the movies and what are we going to do. they tried to keep alive as jesse jackson used to say, keep hope alive by having meetings and energizing people and it was very difficult for a while because people graduated, they went home. they got jobs and so you had a small group of students and faculty who were left here to try to keep things moving. a lot of that is in the book, also, and a lot of those people were bennett people who one of the original sitinners were the four guys says it ha

scene starting with local author linda brown as she recounts her experience during the greensboro sitins during the civil rights movement. linda brown: in these mass marches going through and down elm street, some of them had eggs thrown at them and water dumped on their heads from buildings and it was, it never got to the wound where it was like it was nice. it was never nice. it was just more than the city could handle in the final analysis. it was about unanimity and solidarity and ok, we're all in this together. i grew up in ohio,