{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"The Daily History Chronicle","title":"February 1, 1960: When Four Teenagers Sat Down and America Had to Stand Up","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/5128040d\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1021,"description":"On February 1, 1960, four Black college freshmen sat at a whites-only lunch counter and asked for coffee, a simple act that sparked a movement across America. Richard Backus explores how Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and David Richmond planned their protest; the crucial role of Bennett College women in sustaining it, and the complicated lives the four men lived afterward, including one who never recovered from being labeled a \"troublemaker\" for daring to ask for basic human dignity.","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/0EKnxtCOkZfs00wl7F9EnKnR8pfED_Og9Hl-lMCQZ9M/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS85NjRm/ZWUxMDY0OGVkYzc1/Yzg4MjU5YTc3OTFm/NjczYy5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}