As four people can change the country

A striking example of how ordinary people can affect the injustice of which lives the whole gosudarstvo.1 February 1960 four African-American student sat at a table with a small cafe Woolworth's supermarket in the town of Greensboro. They ordered coffee. Cafe waiter told them that he would not serve black people and advised students to get out on their own.

However, the four young men were sitting in their seats before closing institutions - to expel them had no right.

The next morning, the coffee shop and sat for 12 gloomy black, on the third day - 60. On the fourth day at the cafe was already 400 blacks - they took all the cafes, and even standing on the street. Guide Woolworth's sounded the alarm.

African Americans across the country took up the protest, and US institutions quickly began to abolish racial rule. Four years have passed and was signed by the famous Civil Rights Act, which abolished racial segregation.







Here they are, "shopman in Greensboro." They have served as a catalyst for a wave of protests. The waves of this magnitude, which is to ignore the authorities have not been able to.



The rack of Woolworth in Greensboro with four chairs is now in the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution. Four people, too, can change the world.



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