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ERA VI
1954 – 1970
Civil Rights & Federal Reckoning
Court decisions, grassroots organizing, nonviolent resistance, and moral witness confronted legalized segregation. The nation was forced to examine itself. Laws changed. But transformation required sacrifice — lives, livelihoods, and sustained struggle.
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1960
The Greensboro Four — NC A&T Sit-Ins Launch the Student Movement
On February 1, 1960, four Black students from North Carolina A&T State University sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC and refused to leave. Their act of nonviolent resistance launched the student sit-in movement that spread to dozens of cities within weeks and became one of the most consequential direct-action campaigns of the Civil Rights era.
Read entry →"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."
— James Baldwin