On Feb. 1, 1960, four students from all-black North
Carolina Agricultural and Technical College walked into a Woolworth
five-and-dime with the intention of ordering lunch, but the manager of the
Greensboro store had his own intentions. Those four young men stood their
ground yet shoved history forward.
Since 1976, every U.S. president has officially designated
the month of February as Black
History Month.
As SASFAA,
we recognize, embrace, and celebrate our members. Our many similarities coupled
with our differences make us, as an association, who we are today--a united
membership moving history forward in hopes of better futures for our students
and lives we touch.
“Despite advances
in the fight for racial equality (including the landmark 1954 Supreme Court
verdict in Brown v. Board of Education and the Montgomery Bus Boycott),
segregation was still the norm across the southern United States in 1960. Early
that year, a non-violent protest by young African-American students at a
segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, sparked a
sit-in movement that soon spread to college towns throughout the region. Though
many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or
disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact,
forcing Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist
policies.”
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