On Thursday, February 11, 1960, at the close of the school day, a group of 26 students in High Point became the first high school students in the United States to stage a Woolworth sit-in demonstration. Their action followed an earlier demonstration on February 1, 1960, by the A&T Four college students in Greensboro. Student organizers were Mary Lou Andrews, Brenda Jean Fountain, Miriam Lynn Fountain, and Andrew Dennis McBride. Led by Reverend B. Elton Cox and accompanied by Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth, the demonstration protested racial social and educational injustices. Key rallying songs were "Ain't Gonna Let Nobody Turn Me 'Round" and "We Shall Overcome," and these, along with prayer, were essential to the student demonstrations. After eight long years of the Civil Rights struggle, efforts began in earnest to heal the city with the forming of an interracial Human Relations Commission, which still exists. Ralph McGill said the sit-ins were productive of the most change, dramatized the immorality and irrationality of such a custom in a way no court argument could, reached far into the back country, inspired adult men and women to support the young students in the cities, and accomplished what even the Supreme Court decision on schools in 1954 had not done.