"The 'sit-ins' at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro launched the passive resistance phase of the civil rights revolution. This book tells the story of what happened in Greensboro ; it also tells the story in microcosm of America's effort to come to grips with our most abiding national dilemma--racism"--Page 4 of cover
Notes
Originally published: New York : Oxford University Press, 1980
"An Epilogue has been added and the Notes section abridged for this edition."