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Arizona Daily Star Saturday, January 11, 2014 NATION A19 Civil rights sit-in pioneer Franklin McCain, 73, dies rsAVElO "to 50Storewide! HHHHlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllM HUGE savings and i 7 selection of today's BOB JORDAN THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 1980 Joseph McNeil, left, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Jibreel Khazan sit at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C, on the 20th anniversary of their historic sit-in. most popular top grain By Emery P. Dalesio THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH, N.C. Franklin McCain, who helped spark a movement of nonviolent sit-in protests across the South by occupying a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960, has died, his son said Friday. McCain, 73, died of respiratory complications late Thursday, Frank McCain of Greensboro said Friday.

Franklin McCain was one of four freshmen students from North Carolina State University in Greensboro who sat down at the local "whites only" lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960. "The best feeling of my life," McCain said in a 2010 interview with The Associated Press, was "sitting on that dumb stool." "I felt so at peace and so self-accepted at that very moment," he said. Nothing has ever happened to me since then that topped that good feeling of being clean and fully accepted and feeling proud of me." McCain, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond and Ezell Blair Jr. (now known as Ji-breel Khazan) planned their surprise action carefully.

They bought school supplies and toiletries so their receipts would prove that the lunch counter was the only part of the store where racial segregation still ruled. The young men stayed leather sofas, sectionals, chairs, recliners, ottomans and more only at BRETT'! Hi mates, dared to make a difference by starting the sit-in movement," McCain's family said in a prepared statement. "To us, he was 'Daddy' a man who deeply loved his family and cherished his friends." He graduated in 1964, became a research chemist and sales executive, and moved to Charlotte. His wife of 48 years, Bettye, died a year ago. He served on his alma mater's board of trustees, then spent four years on the board of the University of North Carolina system.

Richmond died in 1990. McNeil is now 71 and Khazan is 72 said Steffany Reeve a spokeswoman for the International Civil Rights Center and Museum, which occupies the former Wool-worth's store. until the store closed, but returned the next day and subsequent days. They were joined by more protesters, whose numbers built to at least 1,000 by the fifth day. Within weeks, sit-ins launched in more than 50 cities in nine states.

The Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro was desegregated within six months. The sit-in led to the formation in Raleigh of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which became the cutting edge of the student direct-action civil rights movement. The protests between 1960 and 1965 helped pass the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act "To the world, he was a civil rights pioneer who, along with his three class Mi 733-9896 www.brettinteriors.net Reid shifts on changes to jobless-benefit bill Where should you go to buy your used car? PRECISION, AS A MATTER OF FACT. Vfact. Vfact.

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