A & T Discrimination Case Study

Discrimination has been around for a very long time. This has been a lot more noticeable in the past than it is now seeing as we study things of that nature in school. In the past, there were laws and not just social instances of discrimination that people had to endure. These laws are especially prominent in the Jim Crow laws. Of course, people like Rosa Parks took initiative and stood up to some of the laws of the time to ultimately to affect change. In history it takes a very special person or group of people of overcome discrimination, and such is the case of the A&T four. The A&T four were a group of freshmen in college that participated in a sit-in to combat discrimination. Jibreel Khazan, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond were all young men, starting out college, and trying to do what was right for every one. As freshmen of the North Carolina's A&T College these gentlemen were living in a time were discrimination and racism were a commonality of that …show more content…
These men must have been going through a roller coaster of emotion all the way from the days before the sit-in all the way until after the store closed. This was a very brave thing for these young black men to do. Anxiety could have been at an all time high with fear of the repercussions that were to follow when they refused to get up from their seat at the counter. By doing this, any one for them could have been arrested for trespassing, physically attacked, or verbally attacked. Any of these attacks could have happened from the time they entered the store until they left college for summer vacation. The Greensboro Four could also have been ridden with panic all over their bodies and decided to leave at any moment, but they did not. They were just trying to do what was right for everyone, and in that time these men were extraordinary in trying to take on discrimination in their local