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A-Schwarzenegger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-11 12:50 PM
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9. From an old story about the sit-ins, 1960....with photos...
"Greensboro students form the Student Executive Committee for Justice to sustain and expand the campaign. The Greensboro NAACP endorses their action. On February 3rd, more than 60 students, now including women from Bennett who have returned from break and students from Dudley High School, OCCUPY every seat at the Woolworth's counter in rotating shifts for the entire day. The Ku Klux Klan also learns of the sit-in, and led by George Dorsett — North Carolina's official State Chaplain — they heckle and harass the students. The students are not deterred. In the following days their number grows — including white students from Womens College (now University of North Carolina) — and the sit-ins spread to Kress and Walgreens lunch counters, and then to other Greensboro restaurants."

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