A&T Four Monument

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On the campus of North Carolina A & T University, there is a monument, called the February One Monument, which consists of four statues dedicated to the four individuals whom started the sit-in movement in North Carolina. The sit-in was not only a sit-in, but the birth of a serious movement which gained national recognition. The four students that sat down in the “whites only” section of Woolsworth lunch counter on 134 Elm Street on February 1st 1960 were Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair. They were four freshmen students from A & T, and they started the sit-in movement that very day. Soon after their sit-in hundreds and then thousands of youth in Greensboro, other colleges and states outside North Carolina in America joined in the efforts to achieve desegregation at Woolsworth and in the rest of the southern United States, which they accomplished.