ASHEBORO, N.C. — North Carolina was home to several sit-ins in 1960 that sparked a nationwide movement.
“As a Black child living in Concord and, if you were walking downtown and you were on the sidewalk and there was a white person coming in your opposite direction, you were required by law to move off the sidewalk and let them walk. That was a Jim Crow law. And if you did not, then that was a crime,” Emma Washington said.
Washington was part of a major change during her time at Bennett College. It was a mutual idea between students from Bennett College, known as the Bennett Belles, and North Carolina A&T that led to the ending of segregation…