On February 1st, 1960, four college freshmen in Greensboro, North Carolina took a seat at a "whites only” store called, Woolworth. They placed an order of food, but were refused service. They were asked to leave the store, but remained sitting until the store closed for the day. The four freshmen, who attended North Carolina A&T University, came back the next day with a small crowd of people to join them and sit down at the counter to ask for service. The students claimed they acted on impulse and purely out of hatred of the Jim Crow laws.