Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Sit-In Movement
Begun when four black students from North Carolina A & T College sat down at a section of a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina reserved for whites, the sit-in movement quickly spread to other parts of the south. Life sent photographer Howard Sochurek to Petersburg, Virginia, where young people protested the lunch counter policies at a Grants store.

• Martin Luther King 1929 - 1968
• Photos: MLK at Home