The Greensboro Lunch Counter

What an Artifact Can Tell Us about the Civil Rights Movement

• Author(s): Shawn Pryor,
• Publisher: Capstone
• Pages: 48
• ISBN_10: 1496696840
  ISBN_13: 9781496696847
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Juvenile Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Social Activists , Juvenile Nonfiction / People & Places / United States / African American & Black , JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / United States / 20th Century , Juvenile Nonfiction / History / Symbols, Monuments, National Parks, etc , JUVENILE NONFICTION / Diversity & Multicultural ,

Description:... "On February 1, 1960, four young black men sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. At that time, many restaurants in the South did not serve black people. Soon, thousands of students were staging sit-ins in 55 states, and within six months, the lunch counter at which they'd first protested was integrated. How did a lunch counter become a symbol of civil rights? Readers will find out the answer to this question and what an artifact can tell us about U.S. civil rights history"--