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Ezell Blair Jr.
American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
Jibreel Khazan (born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr.; October 18, 1941) is a civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four, a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregatedWoolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.
The protests and the subsequent events were major milestones in the Civil Rights Movement.[1][2]
Early life and education
See also: Greensboro sit-ins
Khazan was born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr.
on October 18, 1941, in Greensboro, North Carolina. Khazan received his early education from Dudley High School, where his father taught.[3] His father was a member of the NAACP and very vocal on the subject of racial injustices and "things naturally rubbed off on me", described Khazan in a 1974 interview.[4