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    2.Greensboro sit-in was a non violent protest carried out by african american students. The original students who began the greensboro where Ezell Blair, David Richmond, Franklin McClain and Joseph McNiel. They were soon known as the “Greensboro Four.” The protest began on february 1st 1960, when he nonviolent protest was carried out by the African American students mentioned above. They entered the segregated woolworth’s, Greensboro, North Carolina. They then took a seat at the lunch counter where there policy was to refuse service to coloured people.This action lead to the police coming but were unable to take action due to lack of provocation, by this time it was being televised and highly anticipated. The “Greensboro Four” stayed untill…

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    The GREENSBORO SIT-IN were a progression of peaceful dissents in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which prompted the Woolworth retail chain evacuating its approach of racial isolation in the Southern United States. Regardless of advances in the battle for racial balance (counting the historic point 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Leading group of Education and the Montgomery Bus Boycott), isolation was still the over the southern United States in 1960. Early that year, a peaceful…

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    to leave and not served. These men were David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and Ezell Blair Jr, together known as the Greensboro four. Woolworths Department store in Greensboro, North Carolina would ever be the same again. This is because the Greensboro Sit-Ins forwarded the civil rights of people by proving that non-violent protests can end racial segregation. The Greensboro Sit-Ins mainly occurred at Woolworth's Department Store Chain, in Greensboro, North Carolina…

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    The sit-in helped integrate other facilities. The Greensboro sit-ins were the first move African Americans made to change racial segregation and it didn’t just influence southern states but states all over the U.S. Protest were spreading from state to state and cities to cities. African Americans were sick of getting treated like they were different people, it was time to stand up and make a change! Slowly but surely restaurants throughout the south began to abandon their policies of…

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    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…

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    Case Study: Greensboro

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    Geologically, Greensboro is situated at the headwaters of the Cape Fear River Basin, the biggest of the 17 noteworthy waterway bowls in North Carolina. The Reedy Fork Creek and Buffalo Creek bowl (Figure 1) in Greensboro are framed from precipitation that keeps running off impenetrable and pervious surfaces, and from water that leaks up from neighborhood springs and in the long run winds up in the Ocean, only south of Wilmington, NC. The bowl is situated in a move zone between warm-mild and…

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    Greensboro: A Short Story

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    It was a bright, summer day in Greensboro, NC. Aubrey, Molly and I were walking through our neighborhood coming home from the pool. As we were walking to go home we passed an old abandoned house that has been in our neighborhood for years . Aubrey always told us how we should look inside, so we all decided to take a tiny glance and see if there was anything in the house. When we looked inside the house we noticed that several lights were on, and that there was furniture in every room. Molly…

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    The Greensboro Sit-In were non-violent protests that made a huge impact on the civil right movements by changing the segregation laws of stores, and helping make a differences in ending segregation in the south. The Greensboro Sit-ins helped segregation times because even though times were still tough and people were getting harmed for standing up, it showed there was still chances and places to make a difference. This event is important because it inspired others to make a difference, and help…

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    Society for them was very hard, and it was important that they do exactly as they were told, or they would have to suffer gruesome consequences. The “Greensboro four” were “four young black men who staged the first sit-in in Greensboro” as evidenced from the text “The Greensboro Sit-Ins.” These young men went into a restaurant that was reserved for whites, the restaurant 's official policy was to refuse service to anyone other than Caucasians, as stated in the text, “The Greensboro Sit-Ins.”…

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    Tear for tear I have overcome the seemingly hopeless boughs of depression after experiencing years of sexual assault, abuse, and bulling. Word for word I am the voice of every UNCG student who could not fight alone and I have not fought alone as I have had countless friends and faculty stand by my side to show me my worth and help me rise to my potential. The very first day I came to visit UNCG I knew that I was home and that the students here would be my family. Like any family you want to…

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