question:  Downtown Greensboro Historic District is home to the location of what series of nonviolent protests in 1960
answer: Greensboro sit-ins
context: Title: Southside, Greensboro, North Carolina
  Passage: Southside is an urban neighborhood in the south central section of the United States city of Greensboro, North Carolina.  Southside has also been known as the Ol' Asheboro neighborhood, Arlington Park, the Asheboro Street neighborhood, and the South Greensboro neighborhood.  Located in downtown Greensboro, its streets are lined with historic Queen Anne mansions and bungalows, complemented by new development that has attracted a diverse population.  The downtown neighborhood has received several national awards including the 2003 Outstanding Planning Award, the 2004 National Award for Smart Growth and in 2005 the Sierra Club named the Southside Neighborhood in the top 12 as one of America's best new developments
  Title: February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
  Passage: February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four is a 2003 documentary film by Rebecca Cerese and Steven Channing.  Nationally broadcast on "Independent Lens" on PBS, it tells the story of The Greensboro Four, four young college freshman, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Ezell Blair, Jr. now Jibreel Khazan, who staged a sit-in at Woolworth's in 1960 to protest segregation practices.  Based largely on first hand accounts and rare archival footage, the documentary film "February One" documents one volatile winter in Greensboro that not only challenged public accommodation customs and laws in North Carolina, but served as one of the blueprints for the nonviolent protests that occurred across the South and the nation during the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
  Title: February One
  Passage: February One (also referred to as the A&T Four Monument) is the name of the 2002 monument dedicated to Ezell Blair, Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond who were collectively known as the Greensboro Four.  The 15-foot bronze and marble monument is located on the western edge of the campus of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina.  James Barnhill, the sculptor who created the monument, was inspired by the historic 1960 image of the four college aged men leaving the downtown Greensboro Woolworth store after holding a sit-in protest of the company's policy of segregating its lunch counters.  The sit-in protests were a significant event in the Civil Rights Movement due to increasing national sentiment of the fight for the civil rights of African-Americans during this period in American history.
  Title: Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts
  Passage: Steven Tanger Center for the Performing Arts in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina is a $78.1 million 3,000-seat performing arts facility scheduled to open in 2019.  It will replace 2,400-seat War Memorial Auditorium in the Greensboro Coliseum Complex; the auditorium was torn down in October 2014.  The Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro raised $35 million privately, to be paid over ten years.  The city of Greensboro is paying $30 million.  Construction was delayed a year so the foundation could get a $25 million bank loan to guarantee its contribution.  The Greensboro Symphony and Guilford College's Bryan Series are expected to use the facility.  The facility will also host Broadway productions and concerts.  The facility is named for Steven Tanger, CEO of Tanger Factory Outlet Centers, who pledged $7.5 million toward the project in 2013.  After working for a year, a task force recommended a state of the art center in February 2013.  Groundbreaking was held April 26, 2017 and the first work took place July 13.
  Title: South Greensboro Historic District
  Passage: South Greensboro Historic District, also known as the Asheboro Street Historic District, is a national historic district located in the Southside neighborhood, Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina.  The district encompasses 327 contributing buildings, 1 contributing site, 10 contributing structures, and 1 contributing object in a predominantly residential section of Greensboro.  The houses were largely built between the 1870s and the 1930s and include notable examples of Queen Anne, Italianate, American Foursquare, and Bungalow / American Craftsman-style architecture.  Notable buildings include the Atkinson House, Hanner House, B.E. Jones House, T. Bernard House, C.O. Younts House, W.S. Witherspoon House, and R. N. Watson House, former Asheboro Street Church (now Skeenes Chapel, 1910-1913), and Nettie Mae Coad Apartments (c. 1922).
  Title: Downtown Greensboro Historic District
  Passage: Downtown Greensboro Historic District is a national historic district located at Greensboro, Guilford County, North Carolina.  The district encompasses 96 contributing buildings in the central business district of Greensboro.  The commercial buildings were built between about 1885 and the 1930s in a variety of popular architectural styles including Italianate and Art Deco.  Located in the district is the separately listed Jefferson Standard Building.  Other notable buildings include the Vanstory Building (c. 1885), Kress Building (1929), Woolworth's (c. 1929), Efrid's Department Store (c. 1930), Montgomery Ward (1936), the Carolina Theatre (1927), Center Theatre (1948), the former Belk Building (1939), Ellis Stone/Thalhimer's Department (1949-1950), and the former American Exchange National Bank Building (1920).  The Woolworth's store is notable as the site of the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960.
  Title: Greensboro Historic District (Greensboro, Alabama)
  Passage: Greensboro Historic District (Greensboro, Alabama)
  Title: Greensboro sit-ins
  Passage: The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.  While not the first sit-in of the Civil Rights Movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the most well-known sit-ins of the Civil Rights Movement.  These sit-ins led to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in US history.  The primary event took place at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth store, now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
  Title: Ezell Blair Jr.
  Passage: 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 milestone in the Civil Rights Movement.
  Title: Magnolia Hall (Greensboro, Alabama)
  Passage: Magnolia Hall, also known as the McCrary-Otts House, is a historic Greek Revival mansion in Greensboro, Alabama.  It is a contributing property to the Greensboro Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places.  It was recorded by the Historic American Buildings Survey in late March 1936.
citations: Downtown Greensboro Historic District Greensboro sit-ins