Thursday, January 31, 1980
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Protesters honored for '60s sit-in
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP)-Four frightened young black men, 17 and 18 years old, sat down at a lunch counter 20 years ago.
What they did changed the course of American history. What they have become a history lesson itself.
Friday marks the 20th anniversary of the beginning of the lunch counter sit-ins in Greenbraes. Within days, sit-ins for integration of public facilities had spread to cities in minor states. Within a year, most had disregarded some public facilities.
"in sitting down," the late Frank Porter Cramer, then a senior senatorate scientist from Carolina, said to her nephew several years of protests, "the demonstrators are standing up for the American people."
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CENTER A&T College and David Richmond left their North Carolina &A/T State College dormitory about 4 p.m. on Feb. 1, 1980, to walk the F.W.
"It took us awhile to get the courage to go," Richmond recalled earlier. "We went up to leave; the waitresses told us to leave. When the police arrived, they just stood there. They didn't."
"I was the most fearful. If you had said 'boo,' I probably would have fallen off the steel." he said.
Richmond, now living in Franklin, has been unemployed for six months. He has worked in federal jobs programs and does one of the four who did not complete college.
"A lot of interesting things have happened to me since," he said, but added, "If you take the risk, you have to be able to accept the consequences."
FOR MCNELI, "The need for the sit-ins was very obvious." On his way home from New York after Christmas, McNeil was at the Greenbush bus station, which counter at the Greenbush bus station.
"This disturbed him greatly," Khazan said. "We discussed this. He suggested a boycott, but we didn't know exactly what to do."
The night before the sit-in, Khazan visited his parents. He asked whether they would be embarrassed if he got into trouble.
"Why?" they asked.
"Because tomorrow we're going to do something that will shake up this town," he replied.
"I had a premonition. . . . I had a feeling this was a something big, but I did not have any idea it would have the ramifications it did," Khazan said last week. "We were not trained politically; we knew nothing about it, and we knew from church or from school."
high spot in his life. He added, however, "I consider my contribution just one drop, no more."
KHAZAN NOW lives in New Bedford, Mass, and works with the city's federal jobs program.
McNeil is a stockbroker in Fayetteville, N.C. After college he entered the Air Force, rising to the rank of major before he left.
Khazan said his role in the sit-ins was a
"It taught you an awful lot about life quickly." McNell said of the sits.-"What essentially we were striving for was the opportunity to do things. We never expected it to be handed to us. The extent of what we've achieved that it was worthable."
McCain, now a technical manager with Frank McCain in Charlotte, NC, said in an interview, "I am very excited by Frank McCain got from that day. I sure there's nothing else he can do for an interview."
Sitting at the lunch counter for the first time gave him a tremendous sense of relief, he said. "It established my manhood, relieved a lot of burdens, of all scars."
BY FEB. 2, 1960, McCain and his friends had been joined by a more than a dozen supporters. The demonstrators had grown to several hundred within a week. The
protests stopped for about a month, while a committee appointed by the mayor tried to find a solution. When none was reached, the police first multiple arrests came at the end of April.
Then another committee, consisting of black leaders, negotiated with the store owners. The lunch counter at F.W. Woolworth was finally integrated along with the lunch counter at S.S. Kress, where demonstrations were also held.
It took several years and more demonstrations before other restaurants, in Greenberg and elsewhere, were integrated.
Tomorrow, the first day of Black History month, Greenbross will honor the four men. A state historic landmark sign will be unveiled at 10 a.m., breakfast begins at the lunch counter.
Woolworth's will also present the college, now North Carolina A&T State University, for its 150th anniversary. They will give smaller replica to the men. They will be honored at a concession at A&T and at the Citi Field in New York City.
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