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Thread #169274   Message #4195762
Posted By: GeoffLawes
19-Jan-24 - 09:26 AM
Thread Name: Any February Songs?
Subject: RE: Any February Songs?
February 1, 1960 The Greensboro lunch counter sit in, when four African American students sat down and ordered coffee at a segregated lunch counter inside a Woolworth's store.

BALLAD OF THE STUDENTS’ SIT IN   -   Guy Carawan, Candie Carawan & Eve Merriam    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t8ciXAY1B0
Lyrics as written by Eve Merriam     https://credo.library.umass.edu/view/full/mums312-b151-i334
Information about this variously titled song from 20th Century History Songbook     https://20thcenturyhistorysongbook.com/song-book/race-relations/the-lunch-counter-sit-ins/
Ballad of the Sit-Ins - Sweet Honey in the Rock     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOW8I1k0Jzw
Greensboro sit-ins from Wikipedia   -  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins