2201 | Firsts in Civil Rights

Published: March 14, 2007, 2 p.m.

While students at North Carolina A&T College made history in 1960 as the first to test the sit-in strategy at a Woolworth's counter in Greensboro protesting segregated public facilities, students living in different parts of North Carolina had made history of their own in the late '50's as the first in their city's to challenge the illegal system of segregation in public schools. Meet and hear the stories of these two Civil Rights pioneers. (Host - Mitchell Lewis)

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