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099    Streaming Video Kanopy 
245 00 February One.|h[Kanopy electronic resource] 
264  1 [San Francisco, California, USA] :|bKanopy Streaming,
       |c2015. 
300    1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 61 min.) :
       |bdigital, .flv file, sound 
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500    Title from title frames. 
518    Originally produced by California Newsreel in 2004. 
520    February One: Organization of American Historians Erik 
       Barnouw Award Honorable Mention Recipient In one 
       remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course 
       of American history. February One tells the inspiring 
       story surrounding the 1960 Greensboro lunch counter sit-
       ins that revitalized the Civil Rights Movement and set an 
       example of student militancy for the coming decade. This 
       moving film shows how a small group of determined 
       individuals can galvanize a mass movement and focus a 
       nation’s attention on injustice. The Greensboro Four, Ezell
       Blair, Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan), David Richmond, Franklin 
       McCain and Joseph McNeil, were close friends at North 
       Carolina A&T University before they became political 
       activists. Two of the four had grown up where segregation 
       was not legal, while another’s father was active in the 
       NAACP. They recount how the idea for the sit-in grew out 
       of those late night ‘bull sessions’ that make college 
       years so rich. Prof. William Chafe helps set the 
       historical context the four young men confronted: the 
       Civil Rights Movement had stalled since the Brown decision
       and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. On the night of January 31,
       1960 the four dared each other to do something that would 
       change the South and their own lives forever. They decided
       to sit-in at the whites-only lunch counter at Woolworth’s 
       in downtown Greensboro the next day. On February 1st, 
       dressed in their Sunday best, the four men sat down at the
       lunch counter. Frank McCain remembers that he knew then 
       this would be the high point of his life, “I felt 
       clean...I had gained my manhood by that simple act.” The 
       four were refused service; when they did not leave the 
       store the manager closed the lunch counter. In the days 
       that followed they were joined by more students from local
       Black colleges and a few white students who also sat-in at
       other lunch counters in Greensboro. Prof. Vincent Harding 
       reminds us that the Civil Rights Movement was the first 
       major social movement to be covered by television news so 
       word of the events in Greensboro spread across the nation 
       like a prairie fire. Within just a few days students were 
       sitting in at lunch counters in fifty-four cities around 
       the South. Greensboro’s civic leadership pressured the 
       President of North Carolina A&T to halt the protests but 
       he counseled the students to follow their own consciences.
       Finally after months of protests the Woolworth management 
       quietly integrated its lunch counter. The wave of direct 
       action started by the Greensboro Four coalesced in the 
       formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating 
       Committee (SNCC), the vanguard of the Civil Rights 
       Movement of the 1960s. February One not only fills in one 
       of the most important chapters in the Civil Rights 
       Movement, it reminds us that this was a movement of 
       ordinary people motivated to extraordinary deeds by the 
       need to assert their basic human dignity. It provides an 
       eloquent argument to today’s generation of students that 
       involvement in the politics of our own time is a vital 
       part of any college education. Emmy award-winning 
       filmmaker, educator, and president of Video Dialog Inc., 
       Dr. Steven Channing has produced nationally televised 
       films including This Other Eden and We Remember America's 
       400th Anniversary. Dr. Channing has also served as a 
       Professor of American History at the University of 
       Kentucky, Visiting Professor at Stanford University, and 
       Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
600 10 McNeil, Joseph |d1942-. 
600 10 McCain, Franklin |d1941-2014. 
600 10 Blair Jr., Ezell |d1941-. 
600 10 Richmond, David Leinail |d1941-1990. 
650  0 Civil rights demonstrations|xRace relations|vHistory|y20th
       Century|zUnited States. 
650  0 African Americans|xCivil rights|xSegregation|vHistory
       |y20th Century|zUnited States|zNorth Carolina|zGreensboro.
655  7 Documentary films.|2lcgft 
700 1  Smith, Daniel Blake |efilm director. 
700 1  Vickers, Tom|efilm director. 
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