On February 1, 1960 four men made a stance against injustice and discrimination in Greensboro, North Carolina. 

Ezell Blair, Franklin McCain, Joseph A. McNeil, and David Richmond of A&T University protested segregation in public eating spaces by performing a "sit-in" at a Woolworth dining counter.

A "sit-in"is a form of protest popularized by the Greensboro four. Where protesters will occupy a space and refuse to move until their demands are met.

The manager of the Woolworth, fearing economic retaliation from the local African American community, did not have the four arrested allowed the four to stay until closing time.