February 25, 2008
3. Moment of Liberation
Fifteen seconds after … I had the most wonderful feeling. I had a feeling of liberation, restored manhood. I had a natural high. And I truly felt almost invincible. Mind you, [I was] just sitting on a dumb stool and not having asked for service yet.It's a feeling that I don't think that I'll ever be able to have again. It's the kind of thing that people pray for … and wish for all their lives and never experience it. And I felt as though I wouldn't have been cheated out of life had that been the end of my life at that second or that moment.
~Franklin McCain
NPR interview on the anniversary of the Feb. 1, 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-in
* NPR story
* Smithsonian's exhibit Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education
* Independent Lens site for the film February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four