Ezell Blair Jr. is refused service at a Union Bus Terminal station restaurant. Students occupy 63 of the 65 seats available at the Woolworth's lunch counter. Three white women from the Woman's College join the demonstrations, as do students from other area colleges. Sit-ins begin at the S.H. Kress store across the street.
Demonstrations begin in Charlotte.
Demonstrations begin in Raleigh. Students participate in sit-ins across the state. Support of picketing has begun in Northern cities against Woolworth's and other chain stores. Edward Zane receives more than 2000 letters on the sit-ins, with 73 percent favoring equality of service on some basis. The first black ate a meal, sitting down, at Woolworth's in Greensboro.