Four

Woolworth Sit-In

  • The beginning

    Greensboro Four are refused service because of their race
  • Period: to

    Woolworth Sit-In

  • Bringing in the reinforcements

    Greensboro Four return with 27 more people
  • More and More

    The number swells to 300 including 3 white women
  • Overcrowding

    More than 500 students crowd woolworth's and the sidewalks in downtown Greensboro
  • Like the Fever

    Sit ins had spread to Winston Salem and Durham
  • Feb 11-12

    The protest crosses state lines to VA, SC, and TN
  • The End

    The segregation of the Woolworth lunch counter ends the woolworth sit in but not the movement, four black Woolworth employees are the first to be served.