| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four. Prod. by Steven A. Channing, Rebecca Cerese, Cynthia Hill, and Daniel Blake Smith. Video Dialog, 2004. 61 mins. (California Newsreel, Box 2284, South Burlington, VT 05407-2284; 877-811-7495; <contact@newsreel.org>; <http://www.newsreel.org> [Sept. 12, 2005])

On February 1, 1960, four students from the all-black North Carolina Agricultural & Technical College entered the downtown Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, and asked to be served at the lunch counter, refusing to leave after being denied. The participants in the sit-in grew to 23 by the second day, 66 by the third day, 100 by the fourth day, and 1,000 by the fifth day, and within two months similar sit-ins had occurred in fifty-four cities and nine different states. As the great drama unfolded, the students began to discover the power of direct action protest: as one protester put it, "that dime store was the birthplace of a whirlwind."

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