I’m fairly certain that you, U.S. Reader, have the following picture of four North Carolina A&T freshmen, sitting at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, SC, at a time when blacks and whites were not to intermingle at places like Woolworth’s:

This Black History Month “fact” is not a “fact”, nor is it about the “A&T Four”.
It is about the 5th person in the pic: the guy behind the counter, Charles Bess, via The Bitter Southerner. It is a long, but interesting, read.