Today in Smithsonian History: February 2, 1980
UPI Caption: 2/2/60 Greensboro, N.C: A group of Negro students from North Carolina A&T College, who were refused service at a luncheon counter reserved for white customers, staged a sit-down strike at the F. W. Woolworth store in Greensboro 2/2. Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson and Mark Martin are shown as they stayed seated throughout the day. The white woman at left came to the counter for lunch but decided not to sit down. (UPI Telephoto fwb)
February 2, 1980 “We’ll Never Turn Back,” an exhibition of the work of 13 photographers of the Civil Rights movement, opens at the National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History.) The exhibition was co-sponsored by the Smithsonian’s Division of Performing Arts and Howard University. A conference, “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement,” was held at the Museum of History and Technology Jan. 30–Feb. 3, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins.
The Woolworth’s lunch counter where the first sit-ins took place is now part of the collection of the National Museum of American History. To learn more about freedom and justice in American history, visit the “Separate is not Equal” online exhibition.
The Woolworth’s lunch counter where the first sit-ins took place is now part of the collections of the National Museum of American History. To learn more about freedom and justice in American history, visit the “Separate is not Equal” online exhibition at http://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/
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