Today's Special: Jim Crow
It was Feb. 1, 1960. The violent sit-ins as we would come to know them — the ones where neatly dressed Negro students would be ignored by nervous wait staff and assaulted by outraged hooligans as police calmly looked the other way, refusing to intervene — were yet to come. But the reverberations from the sit-in McCain staged with the other members of the "Greensboro Four" — Ezell Blair (now known as Jibreel Khazan), Joseph McNeil and David Richmond — would soon ripple out into the world as other students followed their lead: 25 students from North Carolina A&T and other schools came back to sit at the same Woolworth counter the next day.
