C.L. Harris's afternoon routine was abruptly interrupted shortly before 4:30 on the afternoon of February 1, 1960. One of Harris's employees rushed into the store manager's office in the downtown Greensboro Woolworth store to alert Harris to the fact that four young black men were sitting in the white section of the store's lunch counter and refused to move. Harris's response was to do nothing, just let them sit. When no police arrived the students were unsure of what to do. Still sitting at the lunch counter when the store closed Ezell Blair, Jr. located a telephone and called Ralph Johns, "Number One, this is Number Three. They've closed the doors. What should we do?" Johns instructed the four to remain sitting. Johns had already made an anonymous phone call to Jo Spivey, a reporter for the Greensboro Record telling her she should investigate an occurrence at the Woolworth's store. Spivey recognized the caller's voice and thinking it was just another effort on John's part to draw attention, did not venture downtown. She did however; call the newspaper office to dispatch a photographer to the scene. Photographer Jack Moebes arrived just as the Woolworth's doors closed and a small crowd was forming. Still determined to keep the incident as quiet as possible, C.L. Harris would not permit any photographs to be taken inside. Fifteen minutes later the students left by a side entrance and Moebes was able to capture the moment for all time.