Day 15 - 28: February 15 - 28, 1960

Edward R. Zane, a member of the Greensboro City Council, worked with students to reach a compromise. The Mayor agreed to appoint a committee to address the issue, and the protestors agreed to continue negotiations.

Several Greensboro associations, including The Board of Directors of the Greensboro Council of Church Women, the YWCA, and several ministerial alliances came out in favor of integration.

The lunch counters at F.W. Woolworth and Kress stores reopened, but were still segregated. 

By the end of February, the sit-in movement had spread to more than 30 cities in eight states. 

 

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Greensboro was not the first sit-in, but it was the first to be reported across the nation. "As the news spread, so did the movement." (Herr) The news was first reported in Greensboro's city and student papers, and then other North Carolina newspapers carried articles on the sit-in. "On February 15, 1960, the New York Times brought the sit-in to national attention with a front-page headline: 'Negro Sitdowns Stir Fear of Wider Unrest in South.'"

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