A section of lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's where the Greensboro sit-ins began is now preserved in the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. A section of lunch counter now appears in the display of the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of American History. Counter from the Greensboro sit-ins.
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<td valign="top" style="border: none; padding: 4px 10px;"><b>GREENSBORO LUNCH COUNTER, 1960</b> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins" class="extiw" title="en:Greensboro sit-ins">From the site of an important civil rights protest</a>
<p>Segregation in public places was still legal on February 1, 1960, when four African American college students deliberately sat down at this "whites only" lunch counter at an F. W. Woolworth store in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro,_North_Carolina" class="extiw" title="en:Greensboro, North Carolina">Greensboro</a>. When denied service and asked to leave, they remained in their seats. Over the next six months, hundreds of students and church and community members joined the protest. Their activism ultimately led to the desegregation of the lunch counter on July 25, 1960 "With their very bodies," civil rights leader <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_L._Farmer,_Jr." class="extiw" title="en:James L. Farmer, Jr.">James Farmer</a> later said of the protestors "they obstructed the wheels of injustice."
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Mark Pellegrini
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