the back of city buses, were
not permitted to stay in hotels or motels for whites, had to sit in the balcony
of movie theaters, and were not permitted to use the public library, which
partially motivated the activism of Jesse Jackson. Jackson, working through the
NAACP, organized a sit-in at Greenville's F.W. Woolworth "five and
dime" store, and quickly emerged as a civil rights leader. On August 9,
1960, a sit-in at the S. H. Kress store that eventually led to the U.S. Supreme
Court decision
Peterson v. Greenville
(1963), which ruled that private citizens must ignore local segregation
ordinances because they violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth
Amendment.
The Woodson Farmstead was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1998
