Stool from the Greensboro Lunch Counter
name: label: user
content: F. W. Woolworth Co.
notes: label: Description
content: On February 1, 1960, four African American students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College began a nonviolent, direct-action protest. Ezell Blair, Jr. (Jibreel Khazan), Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond sat at the “whites only” lunch counter at a Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and requested service. The staff refused and asked the men to leave, but the students remained for the rest of the day. On February 2, over twenty students joined the sit-in. During the following days and weeks, an interracial group of supporters—including college and high school students—sat-in and picketed the store. The Greensboro protests inspired thousands of others throughout the South to stage sit-ins against Jim Crow. By July, when Woolworth finally served diners regardless of their race, young activists were a factor in the growing civil rights movement.
place: label: used
content: United States: North Carolina, Greensboro
topic: label: used
content: Civil Rights Movement
label: Subject
content: African American
label: related event
content: Greensboro Sit-in
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, General History Collection
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content: Food
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content: Government, Politics, and Reform
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content: National Treasures exhibit
label: Exhibition
content: Greensboro Lunch Counter
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
publisher: label: Related Publication
content: Kendrick, Kathleen M. and Peter C. Liebhold. Smithsonian Treasures of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1994.0156.01
label: catalog number
content: 1994.0156.01
label: accession number
content: 1994.0156
objectType: label: Object Name
content: stool
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: silver (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: salmon (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: average spatial: 38 in x 15 in x 15 in; 96.52 cm x 38.1 cm x 38.1 cm