Overview
The historic Greensboro, North Carolina lunch counter Sit-in on February 1, 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. This singular event was universally credited to four young men from North Carolina A&T State University. Significantly, the integration of public accommodations of that city and many cities followed. Belles of Liberty: Gender, Bennett College and the Civil Rights Movement recalls a more complete story, illuminating what historians overlooked: that the first Sit-in in Greensboro was carefully planned on Bennett College's campus, and without hundreds of women who sat down, marched and were incarcerated from 1960 to 1963, the Sit-in effort and subsequent desegregation of Greensboro and even other cities, might not have succeeded.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780988893702
- ISBN-10: 0988893703
- Publisher: Women and Wisdom Foundation Inc
- Publish Date: March 2013
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.52 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.75 pounds
- Page Count: 230
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