Friday, January 29, 2010

They Sat, So We Could Stand


January 22, 2010 - Nearly 50 years ago in Greensboro, North Carolina, a movement began that changed America. Forever linking together the Civil Rights and Labor Movements.

Three of the four college students who sat down at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, NC, on February 1, 1960, returned to that city last week as living legends of the civil rights movement and guests of honor at the 2010 AFL-CIO Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday Observance.

Watch the video.