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January ? 1960:
Ezell Blair Jr. is refused service at a
Union Bus Terminal station restaurant.
February 2, 1960:
Twenty-five men and four women enter
Woolworth's and continue the sit-in.
February 3, 1960:
Students occupy 63 of the 65
seats available at the Woolworth's lunch
counter.
February 4, 1960:
Three white women from the
Woman's College join the demonstrations,
as do students from other area colleges.
Sit-ins begin at the S.H. Kress store
across the street.
February 8, 1960:
Demonstrations begin in
Charlotte.
February 9, 1960:
Demonstrations begin in Raleigh.
February 10, 1960:
Students participate in sit-ins across
the state.
Third week of February,
1960:
Demonstrations move to other states
throughout the South. Support of
picketing has begun in Northern cities
against Woolworth's and other chain
stores.
Mid-March, 1960:
Edward Zane receives more than 2000
letters on the sit-ins, with 73 percent
favoring equality of service on some
basis.
March 31, 1960:
Edward Zane goes to the students at
A&T to tell them of the Committee's
failure to secure integration.
April 15-17,
1960:
The Student Non-Violent Coordinating
Committee (SNCC) is formed in Raleigh by
a group of Shaw University students.
July 25,
1960:
The first black ate a meal, sitting down,
at Woolworth's in Greensboro.
After one week, 300 blacks have been
customers.
July 26, 1960:
Woolworth's is desegregated.
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February 1, 1960:
After passing by Ralph Johns' store on
Market Street, Ezell Blair Jr. (Jibreel
Khazan), David Richmond, Joseph McNeil,
and Franklin McCain enter the Elm Street
Woolworth's at 4 p.m., purchase school
supplies and "sundry" items.
They then approach the lunch counter and
order coffee at 4:30 p.m. They are
refused service. The four remain in their
seats until closing at 5 p.m.
February
5, 1960:
More then 300 students are
taking part in the protest.
February 6, 1960:
Hundreds of students, including
the A&T football team, descend on the
downtown area. This day becomes known as
"Black Saturday."
February 7, 1960:
Black students in Winston-Salem
and Durham hold demonstrations at lunch
counters.
February
19, 1960:
The North Carolina Council of
Churches endorses the sit-ins.
February 23, 1960:
The Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counters
reopen.
February 27, 1960:
The Zane Committee mails more than 5000
surveys to citizens asking for their
opinions.
March
24, 1960:
Zane calls together managers from eight
downtown stores to force the issue of
desegregation.
April 1, 1960:
Demonstrations resumed.
April 3, 1960:
Thurgood Marshall, national counsel for
the NAACP, speaks at Bennett College,
warning against accepting "token
integration".
April 21, 1960:
Forty-five young blacks march into the
Kress store and refuse to leave the lunch
counter. They were the only blacks
arrested during the entire demonstration
February
1, 1980:
State historical marker is unveiled at
corner of Elm & Friendly.
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