It’s Black History Month!
“On 1 February 1960, Joseph McNeil, Jibreel Khazan, David Richmond and Franklin McCainand began their protest, and refused to leave Woolworth's when directed to by management.”
I’m so proud of these four men, please read the article below. Here is another excerpt.
“McCain later told Christopher Wilson, a journalist with Smithsonian magazine: ‘Almost instantaneously, after sitting down on a simple, dumb stool, I felt so relieved. I felt so clean, and I felt as though I had gained a little bit of my manhood by that simple act’.”
Please read the story here…
https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/10962/greensboro-civil-rights-sit-ins