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History > USA > Civil rights > Activists
Franklin McCain 1941-2014
Mr. McCain, second from left, at a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., in 1960.
Photograph: United Press International
Franklin McCain, Who Fought for Rights at All-White Lunch Counter, Dies at 73 NYT JAN. 10, 2014
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/11/
Franklin Eugene McCain 1941-2014
Franklin McCain (...) helped fuel the civil rights movement in 1960 when he and three friends from their all-black college requested, and were refused, coffee and doughnuts at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C.
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Mr. McCain was one of the so-called Greensboro Four, who sat down at lunch counter stools at an F. W. Woolworth store on Feb. 1, 1960, fully expecting that they would not be served.
When they were not, they came back the next day, and the next, and the next.
As word of the protest spread, others, in ever-growing numbers, joined them.
By the end of the fifth day, more than a thousand had arrived.
And on July 25, the store relented and made the lunch counter available to all.
It was not the first such sit-in.
After the Supreme Court’s order to desegregate the public schools in 1954, activists tried to integrate lunch counters in Oklahoma City, Baltimore and other cities on the periphery of the segregated South.
There had been similar efforts in the Deep South, particularly in Orangeburg, S.C., in 1955 and ’56 and in Durham, N.C., in 1957.
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