The Greensboro Lunch Counter: What an Artifact Can Tell Us About the Civil Rights Movement
Author: Pryor, Shawn
Reading Metrics
Grade Level
Middle Grades (MG 4-8)
Book Level
6.1
Points
1.0
Fiction/Nonfiction
Nonfiction
Word Count
4374
Points per Word
0.000229
Page Count
48
Points per Page
0.020833
Description
In February 1960, four young Black men sat down at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and staged a nonviolent protest against segregation. In just six months, the Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter was integrated.