When you think about the Greensboro sit-in at Woolworth’s whites-only lunch counter, you probably think about the A&T Four — the male freshmen widely credited with the movement.
But Linda Beatrice Brown, a Bennett College alumna, wants people to know that there were hundreds of young women who participated in the sit-ins, too. She was one of them and says there was a time when half of her college was incarcerated for protesting.
“If it hadn’t been for the Bennett women … I mean, the Bennett women sustained this constant pressure,” Brown said. “So I was really tired of Bennett not getting the credit that Bennett deserves for this movement.”…