Moebes, Jack, 1911-2002, photographer. still image Photojournalism. gmgpc Group portraits 1960. gmgpc Gelatin silver prints 1960. gmgpc [photo created February 2, 1960]. eng Caption label from exhibit African American Odyssey (held at the Library in 1998), with updates from the Jack Moebes Photo Archive : On February 1, 1960, four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, NC (Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, Jr. and David Richmond) entered the F. W. Woolworth store and quietly sat down at the lunch counter. They were refused service, but they stayed until closing time. Jack Moebes, a photographer for the Greensboro Record, photographed them walking down the street in front of the store. The next morning, they came back with more students, including those in this image. Two weeks later, similar demonstrations had spread to several cities, and within a year, similar peaceful demonstrations took place in over a hundred cities North and South. At Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, the students formed their own organization, the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, pronounced "Snick"). The students' bravery in the face of verbal and physical abuse led to Woolworth’s desegregation of all its stores within a few months after the first sit-in in Greensboro and the integration in many other commercial businesses even before the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. United Press International print. This telephoto print is a significantly cropped version of an original negative in the Jack Moebes Photo Archive. UPI sourced the cropped image to newspapers, including the NYWTS, which retained the print in its file. The photographer was identified as Jack Moebes by the Jack Moebes Photo Archive (and jackmoebes.com) in 2025. The Jack Moebes Photo Archive retains the copyright. No. RAP020204. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection. Forms part of: New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: "Voices of Civil Rights" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2005. Exhibited: African American Odyssey" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 1998. F.W. Woolworth Company--1960. African Americans--Civil rights--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960. Demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960. Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960. Racism--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960. Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro--1960. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress) http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.08095 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3c14749 Reproduction, publication and other rights are restricted. For information and permissions, see "Jack Moebes,"