Nonviolent Resistance in the Civil Rights Movement
CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE Sitting for Change 4 CHAPTER TWO A Long Way from Freedom 12 CHAPTER THREE The Sit-ins of 1960 18 CHAPTER FOUR The Freedom Rides of 1961 26 CHAPTER FIVE Continuing Nonviolent Resistance 34 Snapshot of Nonviolent Resistance 42 Stop and Think 44 Glossary 46 Learn More 47 Index 48 About the Author 48
5 CHAPTER ONE David Richmond Franklin McCain Ezell Blair Jr and Joseph McNeil became known as the Greensboro Four It was around three o’clock in the afternoon on February 1 1960 Four young men entered a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro North Carolina They bought school supplies After paying they sat down at the store’s lunch counter and tried to order coffee The waitress refused to serve them SITTING FOR CHANGE
