The first African Americans to deliberately challenge segregation in public restaurants and eating facilities were four young men who sat in at Woolworth's lunch counter in the city of Atlanta,Georgia.

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The first deliberate challenge to segregation in public restaurants and eating facilities was actually the Greensboro sit-ins in North Carolina in February 1960, where four young black men sat at a Woolworth's lunch counter. The Atlanta sit-ins that followed were inspired by the Greensboro protests.

The First African Americans to Deliberately Challenge Segregation in Public