GREENSBORO, NORTH CAROLINA - Jack Moebes, a photographer who shot the picture of the 1960 Woolworth's sit-in that hangs in the Smithsonian, has died. He was 91. <br>
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Moebes, a native of Decatur, Ga., who died Wednesday of complications from pneumonia, worked for three decades at The Greensboro Record and Greensboro Daily News. <br>
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He took the first pictures of four North Carolina A&T University freshmen who sat at the segregated Woolworth's lunch counter and refused to leave until they were served. Their demonstration helped spark a movement that helped change racist practices across the South. <br>
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McArthur Davis, executive director of the organization working to create a civil rights museum in the old Woolworth's building, said that Moebes allowed the organization to use his photograph to help raise money for the museum. <br>
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``If it wasn't for Jack Moebes, that particular piece of history might not be recorded as professionally and as accurately as it is,'' Davis said. <br>
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Moebes attended Loyola University on a football scholarship. He later earned a law degree at Cumberland School of Law in 1935, but never took the bar exam. <br>
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Moebes worked in a Birmingham steel mill before enlisting in the Army Air Force in December 1942. <br>
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There he was given an aptitude test, which led him to photography school. He spent most of the next three years working in military photo labs in the Pacific during World War II. <br>
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Soon after leaving the military in 1945, he began working for the now-defunct Wilmington Post. He moved to The Greensboro Record and the Greensboro Daily News in 1946, where he would remain until his retirement in 1976. <br>
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His 20,000 assignments for the newspapers ranged from scenes of the civil rights struggle to the ``Vegetable Zoo,'' a regular feature of photos of vegetables shaped like animals. <br>
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A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday. The funeral will be Monday.
