Looking back at the history-making Greensboro Woolworth sit-in

Looking back at the history-making Greensboro Woolworth sit-in

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ViewOn Feb. 1, 1960 four Black college students conducted a nonviolent protest at the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, instructed to just sit at the counter and wait to be served. 

The simple, peaceful act enacted major change not only with the desegregation of lunch counters at Woolworth, but...

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