Franklin McCain, who, with three other college students, helped touch off the American civil rights movement, has died of respiratory ailments. He was 73. The Greensboro Four sat down at a Woolworth's lunch counter, knowing that they would not be served, The Washington Post reports.
The four were college freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, and included Mr. McCain, his roommate, David Richmond, and their friends Ezell Blair Jr. and Joseph McNeil when they sat at the Woolworth's lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960.
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