Sit-In: How Four Friends Stood Up by Sitting Down
Courageously defying the WHITES ONLY edict of the era, four young black men took a stand against the injustice of segregation
in America by sitting down at the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store. Countless others of all races soon joined
the cause following Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful words of peaceful protest. By sitting down together, they stood up for
civil rights and created the perfect recipe for integration not only at the Woolworth’s counter, but on buses and in communities
throughout the South.
Poetic storytelling and exuberant illustrations combine to celebrate a defining moment in the struggle for racial equality.
Read more about the History of the Civil Rights Movement.