Franklin McCain was one of four students who sat down at an all-white lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., on February 1, 1960.
The freshman from North Carolina A&T ignited a sit-in movement in the Jim Crow South that led to other key chapters in the Civil Rights era.
McCain died yesterday at the age of 73.
From the Here & Now Contributors Network, Jeff Tiberii of WUNC has this remembrance.
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- Jeff Tiberii, reporter at WUNC. He tweets @j_tibs.
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