The Greensboro Four were a group of four black college students, Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel Khazan), Franklin Eugene McCain, Joseph Alfred McNeil, and David Leinail Richmond, from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, North Carolina that, in 1960, sat down at an all-white Woolworth's lunch counter, and refused to leave when they were denied service. Hundreds of others soon joined in this first sit-in, which lasted for several months. In company throughout the entire protest was their white best-friend Hal Sieber, who easily recalls the events. Such protests quickly spread across the South, ultimately leading to the desegregation of Woolworth's and other chains. The original Woolworth's counter and stools now sit in the Smithsonian Museum, but a Sit-In Museum is being planned for the old Woolworth's building where the event actually occurred.
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