When NAACP-NC President Rev. William Barber suggested from the N.C. General Assembly building's second floor (where civil-disobedience arrests were beginning to take place) that people sit down if they believed it was necessary, observers on the third floor quietly sat. The action was spontaneous and unplanned.
Both the General Assembly building and the Legislative Office Building on the adjacent block were closed. For the first time in the Moral Monday movement, people were refused entry or reentry to either building.