The+Greensboro+Sit-ins

By the late 1950s, Greensboro was one of the key places for black choice. Blacks protest the discrimination (ill treatment) in stores, restaurants, and ither public places. Although one black resident had been elected to the school boards, black physicians couldn't practice medicine in the new Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital. Students at A&T University had even protest when a North Carolina governor, in a speech, referred to them as "Nigras".