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Mon, 02.01.1960

North Carolina A&T Students Stage Sit-In Protest

On campus Memorial

*On this date in 1960, the sit-in movement rose to new heights in the American Civil Rights era.

The North Carolina A&T Four turned up participation in the Black civil rights that day. David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair), and Joseph McNeil were all freshmen at NCA&T. They entered a segregated North Carolina F.W. Woolworth’s lunch counter and demanded to be served. This protest ignited sit-in campaigns throughout the South.

A statue created by the University's art professor, James Barnhill, was unveiled in 2002 on the 42nd anniversary of the Civil Rights episode.

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