February One

309 West Morgan Street,Durham NC 27701

01 February, 2023

Description

On this remarkable day, February 1, in the year 1960, four college freshmen changed American history. This film depicts Ezell Blair, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil (the “Greensboro Four”) as they began a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina. The restaurant refused service to African Americans. This demonstration is considered one of the pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement. In the film, protestors recount how the idea for the sit-in grew out of their late-night talks in campus dorms, and how the decision to act changed their lives and history forever. Curriculum Connections: History, Civics, Visual Literacy, Contextual Relevancy, Critical Response “Doc-U-Memories” Workshop presented by Aya Shabu of Whistlestop Tours Doc-U-Memories is an interactive game-ified walking and “place-keeping” experience where students work together to explore the history of historic neighborhoods, symbolic monuments, and sites of civic engagement on their own school’s campus to find clues and solve challenges in a history scavenger hunt. Whistle Stop will design challenges, curate sites of exploration, and highlight relevant history specific and approximate to the school and surrounding environment.