Sitting for Equal Service: Lunch Counter Sit-Ins, United States, 1960s

by Melody Herr

We were hoping the sit-in] would catch on and it would spread throughout the country, but it went even beyond our wildest imagination.―Ezell Blair Jr., North Carolina Agricultural & Technical college student

On February 1, 1960, four black college students sat down at the whites-only lunch counter in a Woolworth's department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. The young men knew the waitress couldn't take their order because of...

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822589702
• ISBN13: 9780822589709
• Release Date: August 2010
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (Tm)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 11 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 6 to Postsecondary