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First sit-down sit-down starts pattern for others
An Associated Press look at Greensboro in February that sparked a nationwide wave of lunch counter sit-downs. Ezell Blair Jr and peers at A and T College faced denial, with NAACP and CORE involvement shaping a movement across the South and beyond.
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South
Associated Pres
Greensboro
N.C
Perry Mullen
Associated Press
News
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College
Joseph McNeil
F. W. Woolworth
Blair
McNeil
George Simkins Jr
Greensboro National Assn
CORE
Congress of Racial Equality
Woolworth
New York
Simkins
Durham
Alabama
Edwin Strickland
Wwe
New
Gordon Carey
S White Biol
Sai Core
Supreme Court
Woolworth's
S. H. Kress
George Roach
Jared
Dixie