Woolworth Sit-In
The protest took place in Woolworth on February 1, 1960' at 4:30 p.m four students including me from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at the lunch counter side. Something that was significant but bad is that white race people enraged and began to scream at us. White race people were mad because of the us sitting in a only white people allowed spot so only because of this they began to throw food at us, boiling hot coffee in my partners face, pies and also punched and threw us to the floor. We did nothing wrong but sit down to wait for waiter to take our order and still got accused and token to prison.
This event is important and symbolic to the U.S. because this way we can remember the things that happened in the past and bring awareness for it to not happen again in the future. David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil began with this movement to encourage African Americans to not be afraid and love their pride, to not show fear and be brave towards white people.
Some conclusions I can make about this event is that evidently this treatment was an act of hate and discrimination. I strongly believe that skin color does not matter when you're a person of good morals and convictions. There is no necessity to threat or incriminate someone just because of their skin pigment. My presence there was completely abolished and truly indignant. What hurt the most besides the boiling hot coffee were the sense of hatred and u appreciation towards African American race.
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