50 Years Ago Today
February 1, 1960 is the day when 4 young college students from AT&T State University in North Carolina seated themselves at the all-white lunch counter in a Woolworth’s dime store in Greensboro asking to be served coffee and donuts. Thus began the wild fire spread of sit-ins around the country that catalyzed the Civil Rights movement and changed America.
How wonderfully appropriate that the very same Woolworths is the location of the new International Civil Rights Center and Museum — with the original counter and stools preserved to remind us where it all started.
Some good photos at www.nytimes.com/design
also…. Howell Raines remembrance
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