Philadelphia Woman, Ingrid Wynn Catlin, Recalls Civil Rights Sit-In

Philadelphia PA

25 February, 2021

1:23 PM

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By Jim Donovan, CBS Philadelphia February 25, 2021 PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – They are known as The Greensboro Four, four Black college students who refused to leave a Woolworth's segregated lunch counter after they were denied service. Sixty-one years later, a Philadelphia woman who was part of that protest talks about her experience. Little did she know at the time, but it was the beginning of the civil rights sit-in movement. As we walked by the Johnson House in Germantown, a historic site that once served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, Ingrid Wynn Catlin recalls part of her own history, attending Bennett College for women in Greensboro, North Carolina. Read more at CBS Philadelphia