When Four Teenagers Sat Down and America Had to Stand Up - February 1, 1960

On February 1, 1960, four Black college freshmen sat at a whites-only lunch counter and asked for coffee, a simple act that sparked a movement across America. Richard Backus explores how Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond planned their protest; the crucial role of Bennett College women in sustaining it, and the complicated lives the four men lived afterward, including one who never recovered from being labeled a "troublemaker" for daring to ask for basic human dignity.