We Are Americans

During the third quarter, students learned about the various aspects and features of being an American. As a culminating activity, students created what they felt would be a good American symbol.  

Students had to create a symbol and then share with the class the reasons they thought it would be a good American symbol.

Students learned about famous Black Americans and created a display honoring, the Greensboro Four at our Living Museum in the Old Bonhomme Library.  

The Greensboro Four were college freshmen, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond at North Carolina A & T State University. These young men decided to take a stand against segregation laws in the South. They agreed to sit together at a lunch counter at Woolworth's, a popular store and restaurant in the area and asked to be served.

The men started the lunch counter sit-ins in the South. More students joined the demonstration each day. Students in other North Carolina cities started their own sit-ins. The peaceful protests soon spread to other states in the South. The Greensboro Woolworth’s finally began serving members of the black community at its lunch counter on July 25, 1960, six months after the sit-in began.

The students made a replica of the lunch counter that the four college freshmen would have sat at during the sit-in at Woolworth's.  

They also made protest signs that had the same messages that people had on their protest signs outside of the restaurant during the sit-in. 

Students created drawings of the event and wrote about the Greensboro Four.

Learning about the Greensboro Four was humbling and inspiring.