An iconic North Carolina ... sitting at the same lunch counter where four Black students peacefully protested for civil rights decades prior — was captured in photos and gained national attention.

Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter ... for the civil rights movement.

The "Greensboro Four" re-enact their 1960 lunch counter sit-in on ... the future civil rights icon (whose most intense days at the head of the movement were yet ahead of him as that decade began ...