Students at North Carolina A&T University centered equal access to food in their advocacy challenging Jim Crow and segregation, organizing “sit-ins” at Woolworth’s whites-only lunch counter. Despite arrests and attacks, their stalwart civil disobedience succeeded in forcing Woolworth’s to grant them full and equal rights in their restaurant within months, and spurred additional, successful sit-ins by students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities in many other Southern cities.