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Farabundo Martí was a Salvadoran labor organizer and Marxist-Leninist revolutionary executed by the state on this day in 1932 after he helped lead a peasant uprising against President Maximiliano Hernandez Martínez.
![Sitting from left: Joseph McNeil, Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson on second day of sit-ins, Woolworth, Greensboro, February 2nd, 1960 [blackpast.org]](https://stahmaxffcqankienulh.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/event-photos/Events/greensboroSitin.jpg)
On this day in 1960, the "Greensboro Four" sat down at F. W. Woolworth Company Store's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina to protest segregation, sparking a wave of sit-in protests across the country.
Image: Sitting from left: Joseph McNeil, Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson on second day of sit-ins, Woolworth, Greensboro, February 2nd, 1960 [blackpast.org]
Langston Hughes, born on this day in 1901, was an American author, radical dissident, and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance. "What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or does it explode?"