Forty-nine years ago, today. . . .

A section of lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History


four young men, little more than boys, really, changed the world they, and I, lived in, forever. I was 18, and spent the next five years of my life wishing, somehow I could go, be there. I didn't. But many I loved, and have loved in my lifetime did. And thank you.

And most of all Thank You, Ezell A. Blair Jr. (now known as Jibreel Khazan) (18), David Richmond (died in 1990), Joseph McNeil (17), and Franklin McCain (18).