Segregation In Restaurant Research Paper

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Segregation in Restaurants On February 1, 1960 Franklin McCain was of the teenage student involved in a sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina at Woolworths him and group of other students were influenced by a book they read about the Montgomery Bus Boycott with the leader being Martin Luther King. Franklin and the other four students decided to take action and started a sit-in at the local Woolworth who rules were to not serve black people. Days went by and other black students decided to join them until all the seats were full of them. They were physically assaulted during the sit-ins but they did not fight back because the book they read described that the leader Martin Luther King was a non-violence civil rights movement activist that…show more content…
Franklin McCain was proud of what he had accomplished for himself the fact that he was a part of tremendous civil rights act at the age of 17. He was the beginning of four the first day of February 1, 1960, then the second became twenty nine people, by the fifth day there were 300 hundred. This cause the first four blacks Matthew Walker, Peggy Alexander, Diane Nash, and Stanley Hemphill allowed to eat at Post House Restaurant in Nashville on May 16, 1960. Based on the non-violent action of the sit-ins it became a big deal everywhere in the Deep South within six months. The sit-ins ended segregation in the restaurants and lunch counters for the black people of the community. Franklin McCain was interviewed by Howell Raines for his book My Soul Is Rested: Movement Days in the Deep South Remembered (1977). He also was interviewed by Gary Younge for his book No Place Like Home (2000). He had no problem telling his story to these two authors he told them they should have been done this long before they interviewed him. The was one other person who needs to be recognized which is Stokley Carmichael who was interviewed by Gordon Parks when he made the statement about the publicity hounds and then realizing the purpose of all of the sit-ins for
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