February is Black History Month!
Curator’s Choice Talk: Greensboro Lunch Counter
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
12:00 p.m.–12:30 p.m.
Location
“Treasures of American History” National Air and Space Museum
Free
First-come, First-served
This is a really cool link with voice and images and a story well told:
NMAH Object of History: Lunch Counter
and this is a great resource, too, for events and activities:
On February 1, 1960, four African American college students protesting segregation entered a Woolworth’s store in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at this “whites-only” lunch counter, and politely asked to be served. When their request was denied, the students refused to leave.
For six months, students and supporters staged a sit-in protest and boycott of the store. In July 1960, the Woolworth’s lunch counter was desegregated. A watershed event in the civil rights movement, the student-led Greensboro sit-in ignited similar protests across the South.
The Lunch Encounter 
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