Almost immediately news of the sit-in spread across campus and students swarmed to the cause. The sit-in leaders coordinated with the student body president to arrange transportation and order. By the third day, students occupied 63 of the 65 seats at the lunch counter. Lewis Brandon, a student at North Carolina A&T, who coordinated picketing efforts, recalls in this interview from 1981 some of the opposition they faced.
Interview with Lewis A. Brandon, III, June 3, 1981, Greensboro VOICES, University Libraries, University of NC at Greensboro. [http://library.uncg.edu/greensborovoices].