FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5
Tensions mounted. Early in the day, fifty white males were seated at the Woolworth's counter. Sit-in participants, including white students from area colleges, filled the dozen or so remaining seats. Police removed two white youth from the store for swearing and yelling. By 3 pm, 300 people were present. Members of both races were escorted from the premises. Three whites were arrested and the store closed at 5:30 pm.

Store representatives, students and college officials met again that evening. Woolworth personnel took issue with the students limiting their protest to two stores and asked college administrators to end the sit-ins. Administrators plainly stated that they could not control the private activities of students. Some suggested that store officials consider temporarily closing the counters. After two hours of debate, the meeting was adjourned.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6
Early that morning 1,400 A&T students met in Harrison Auditorium. After voting to continue the protest, many headed to the Woolworth store. They filled every seat as the store opened. A large number of counter-protesters showed up as well. By noon, one thousand people had filled the store.

At 1 pm, a caller warned that a bomb was set to explode at Woolworth at 1:30 pm. The crowd moved to the Kress store which was immediately closed. Arrests were made outside both stores. The Woolworth store was cleared and closed with the manager announcing that the lunch counter would be temporarily closed in the interest of public safety.

That night at A&T, a mass rally of 1,600 students voted to suspend demonstrations for two weeks. Dean William Gamble proclaimed that this would give stores time "to set policies regarding food service for Negro students."

FEBRUARY 8 - 14
On Monday, students in Winston-Salem and Durham held sit-ins to demonstrate their solidarity with Greensboro students promising that they would not stand alone. Protests quickly followed in Charlotte, Raleigh, Fayetteville and High Point as well as Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and the F.W. Woolworth stores in New York City.

FEBRUARY 15 - 21
Edward R. Zane, a member of the Greensboro City Council, worked with students to reach a compromise. The Mayor agreed to appoint a committee to address the issue. Protestors agreed to continue negotiations. Several Greensboro associations, including The Board of Directors of the Greensboro Council of Church Women, the YWCA and several ministerial alliances came out in favor of integration.

FEBRUARY 22 - 28
Lunch counters at the Woolworth and Kress stores reopened, but they were still segregated. Mayor George H. Roach introduced the Greensboro Advisory Committee on Community Relations representing the City Council, the Chamber of Commerce and the Merchant's Association. Chairman Ed Zane worked to increase public support for integration of lunch counters, encouraging people to write and express their opinions on the racial situation.

By the close of the month, the Sit-In Movement had spread to 30 cities in 8 states.