George E. McMillan was a reporter from Knoxville, Tennessee, who spent time in 1960 traveling the South to write about the conditions facing Blacks in the region. In the previous decade, Blacks had won an enormous victory with the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. That decision ruled that school segregation was illegal. In February 1960, students began a series of high-profile “sit-ins” (occupying a place as a form of peaceful protest) of lunch counters throughout the South, starting in Greensboro, North Carolina. Up to this time, Blacks were typically denied service at most public lunch counters in the South. During his travels, McMillan discovered an increasing amount of anger among Blacks about the slow pace of change in the region. He contrasted this anger with white resistance to change of any sort, especially quick change.