Seizing Justice: The Greensboro 4 Premieres Sunday, July 25 on Smithsonian Channel

July 23, 2010 by Smithsonian Channel

 The Incredible Story of Four Brave Men Who Stood Up To Racism
And Social Injustice By Taking A Seat…
Seizing Justice: The Greensboro 4
Premiering Sunday, July 25 at 8pm ET/PT on Smithsonian Channel
 
Actress Anna Deavere Narrates
 
It was an average Woolworth’s lunch counter, but these were no average customers. What transpired on Elm Street in Greensboro, North Carolina on February 1, 1960 sent shockwaves across America. The story of the Greensboro 4, college freshman who led a nonviolent sit-in and taught a country that it was finally time to serve everyone, is told in a new Smithsonian Channel special, SEIZING JUSTICE: THE GREENSBORO 4, which premieres Sunday, July 25 at 8pm ET/PT, 50 years to the day when that particular Woolworth lunch counter was desegregated. Acclaimed actress Anna Deavere Smith (Nurse Jackie, The Human Stain) narrates.
 
In February of 1960, a simple coffee order at America’s favorite five-and-dime store sparked a series of events that would help put an end to the Jim Crow laws of the South. SEIZING JUSTICE: THE GREENSBORO 4 details the extraordinary story of otherwise ordinary young men, Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, and Ezell Blair, Jr., four African-American college students, whose nonviolent sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter helped spark a revolution.