Ezell Blair Jr, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond (The Greensboro Four)
Greensboro, North Carolina | 1960
Blair, McCain, McNeil, and Richmond were students at North Carolina's Agricultural and Technical College when they conducted a sit-in at a whites-only Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960. Their bravery launched the sit-in movement that challenged Jim Crow laws.