The Greenville Eight: The Sit-In That Integrated the Greenville (S.C.) Library

The Greenville Eight: The Sit-In That Integrated the Greenville (S.C.) Library

On the afternoon of July 16, 1960, eight African American students bravely filed into the whites-only Greenville County (S.C.) Public Library and sat down in the reading room to look at newspapers and books. One of those students was a young Jesse Jackson—later to become famous as a civil rights activist and minister—who was home in Greenville on summer break from the University of Illinois. The post The Greenville Eight: The Sit-In That Integra…