Greensboro Four Member Franklin McCain Dies

Renowned African American civil rights leader Franklin McCain has died. He was 73.McCain was a member of the Greensboro Four, a group of North Carolina A&T State University students who sparked the "sit-in" movement when they refused to get up from a "whites-only" counter at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's in February 1960.McCain's family says he died on Thursday of respiratory complications.Following the Greensboro Four's protest, sit-ins were...

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