Belles of Liberty

<p>The historic Greensboro North Carolina lunch counter sit-In on February 1 1960 is one of the most well known incidents in Civil Rights history. This singular event was universally credited to four young men from North Carolina A&T State University. The integration of public accommodations in Greensboro and many other cities followed.</p><p></p><p><strong>Belles of Liberty: Gender Bennett College and the civil Rights Movement in Greensboro North Carolina</strong> recalls a more complete story illuminating what many historians have overlooked: that the first sit-In in Greensboro was carefully planned on Bennett College's campus; and without the women who sat down marched and were incarcerated in the hundreds from 1960 to 1963 the Sit-In effort and subsequent desegregation of Greensboro might not have happened.</p>