BREAKING THE COLOR LINE: Black college students sat, stood up for rights
Posted: March 7, 2010 at 6:44 a.m.
Frank James, 71, a Philander Smith College administrator, was one of the student leaders who 50 years ago led the first sit-ins to desegregate Little Rock lunch counters, including the one at the Woolworth’s that once stood at Fourth and Main streets.
On a cold Thursday 50 years ago this week, 50 Philander Smith College students entered F.W. Woolworth Co. on the corner of Fourth and Main streets, sat down at the lunch counter and launched a movement that eventually changed the city forever.
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