thanks for the familiar name calling greeting mate...
truly sorry you missed the connection in my last post regarding the kind and apparently the unbiased governing legislature body of your outstanding State passing such great legislation and i am sure more...
however, please, since you insist to continue to refer to the civil rights beginnings, shall we set the history record straight ?
you are aware the sit-in phenomenon began in the great state of North Carolina?
the NYTimes reported: "... “The demonstrations were generally dismissed at first as another college fad of the ‘panty-raid’ variety. This opinion lost adherents, however, as the movement spread from North Carolina to Virginia, Florida, South Carolina and Tennessee and involved fifteen cities. Some whites wrote off the episodes as the work of ‘outside agitators."
Segregated lunch counters were common in the South because of numerous Jim Crow laws, which also kept public buildings and sites like libraries, parks, theaters, swimming pools and water fountains segregated.
(jim crow laws historically passed from legislatures composed of similar minded white, religiously orientated individuals?)
"Reactions to the sit-in protesters varied by restaurant. In many places, groups of white men gathered around the protesters to heckle them and there was occasional violence. “In a few cases the African Americanes were elbowed, jostled and shoved. Itching powder was sprinkled on them and they were spattered with eggs,” The Times reported. “At Rock Hill, S.C., a African American youth was knocked from a stool by a white beside whom he sat. A bottle of ammonia was hurled through the door of a drug store there. The fumes brought tears to the eyes of the demonstrators.” Many managers closed their counters rather than deal with the protests."
"The sit-in protests were successful in integrating lunch counters, including the Greensboro Woolworth’s, which gave in to to the protesters in July 1960. Four years later, segregation of public places was made illegal when Congress passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
hi ho silver, away...
better than stonewall riots which began the liberation which ended in a cohort of peoples who got so much in such a short period, relatively, of time.