Freedom on the menu: the greensboro sit-ins - carole boston weatherford

After four courageous black teens sat down at a lunch counter in the segregated South of 1960, the reverberations were felt both far beyond and close to home.

This insightful story offers a childs-eye view of this seminal event in the American Civil Rights Movement.

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There were signs all throughout town telling eight-year-old Connie where she could and could not go.

But when Connie sees four young men take a stand for equal rights at a Woolworths lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, she realizes that things may soon change.

This event sparks a movement throughout her town and region.

And while Connie is too young to march or give a speech, she helps her brother and sister make signs for the cause.

Changes are coming to Connies town, but Connie just wants to sit at the lunch counter and eat a banana split like everyone else.