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First sit down at Woolworths sparks southern marches
A Perry Mullen report traces how a Greensboro North Carolina youth led a February 1960 lunch counter sit in that city that grew into a regional movement. Blair and McNeil sought coffee, were refused, drew help from CORE and NAACP, and sparked nationwide nonviolent protests against segregation in stores and other public spaces across the South.
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South
Associated Press
Greensboro
Inc
Perry
Mullen
Presis Balt
N.C
Ezell Blair
North’ Carolina
Blair
George Simkins , Jr
Greensboro National /Assn
Reop
CORE
Congress of
Racial Equality
Alabama
Edwin Strickland
San
Clarence Yikbhal
Washington
NAACP
Gore
New York
Oklahoma
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Ceater
New ‘York
Javeriey
Lother