... McNeil, Izell Blair, Franklin McCain and David Richmond - were in their first year at North Carolina A&T College. After purchasing several items, the four students sat at the lunch counter reserved for white customers. When a waitress asked them to leave, they politely explained that they had purchased items in the store and that ... of nonviolence. King was first introduced to nonviolence as a freshman at Morehouse College in 1944, when he read Henry David Thoreau's "Essay on Civil Disobedience" for the first time. Fascinated by the idea of refusing to cooperate with an evil system, Kin...

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... himself the target of criticisms from SNCC activists who believed he was too cautious. The campaigns were initiated on 1 February 1960 when four black students from North Carolina A&T College sat down at Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina. The students -- Joseph McNeil, Izell Blair, Franklin McCain, and David Richmond -- purchased several items in the store ... to physical violence. It is one of the primary tactics of nonviolent resistance. Henry David Thoreau developed the modern theory behind this practice in his 1849 essay Resistance to Civil Government....

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