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The author wrote a tender essay about a child’s view of being a witness to the Greensboro Sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter.
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The author talks about the motivations of the four black men who performed the sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC and growing non-violent movement for justice and civil rights that came after.
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The author talks about the four black men who performed the sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, which led to six months of lunch counter protests across the South and the end of racial segregation in restaurants.
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The author tells of the Bennett College women who joined in the Woolworth Lunch counter sit-ins and continued to picket and march for equality. Dr. Esther Terry, who had taken part in the movement said “Bennett taught me that a meaningful education came with a responsibility, not only to recognize injustice, but to act against it.’