The Table Where Everyone Sat

In 1960, four Black college students sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. They were refused service. But they stayed. Day after day, more joined them — Black and white, young and old — until that counter could no longer enforce its dividing lines. What struck observers was not just the courage of the protest, but what happened after the counter was finally desegregated.…