Ezell Blair Jr. | |
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| Born | Ezell Alexander Blair Jr. October 18, 1941 |
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| Known for | Staging Greensboro sit-ins during Civil Rights Movement |
| Spouse | Lorraine France George |
| Children | 3 |
Jibreel Khazan (born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr.; October 18, 1941) is a civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four, a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers. The protests and the subsequent events were major milestones in the Civil Rights Movement.[1][2]
- ^ "Civil Rights Greensboro: Jibreel Khazan". University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Archived from the original on 2014-01-15. Retrieved 2014-03-25.
- ^ Davis, Townsend (1998). Weary Feet, Rested Souls: A Guided History of the Civil Rights Movement. New York: W. W. Norton & Company. p. 311. ISBN 0-393-04592-7.