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29157
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Durham, North Carolina-based architect Phil Freelon is the new internationally acclaimed architect of record for the Smithsnonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Among the museum's artifacts are stools form the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina where the fateful sit-in took place in 1960.
Freelon also designed the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, that occupies that same Woolworths.
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34947
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In 1960, four students at North Carolina A&T State University began a six-month long sit-in demonstration at F.W. Woolworth’s in Greensboro. This action defined the non-violent Civil Rights movement in North Carolina and has since been memorialized by architect Phil Freelon. Freelon designed the International Civil Rights Center & Museum around the Woolworth’s building in Greensboro and contributed to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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23100
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Lunch counters and restaurants now provide an opportunity for races and classes to interact and form communities. In the 1950s and 1960s, however, segregation did not allow black citizens to eat at lunch counters, sparking sit-ins and the Civil Rights Movement across the South
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Garden and Gun
(NoCar AP 2 G247), Vol. 8 Issue 3, June/July 2014,
p82-85, il, por
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13557
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February 1, 1960 was one of those days that altered not only the history of North Carolina but the nation as well. It was the day that four young African American college students took their seats at the FW Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro - a segregated area. Graff recalls the event and the four young men. The lunch counter is now the centerpiece exhibit in the International Civil Rights Center and Museum.
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Our State
(NoCar F 251 S77), Vol. 78 Issue 9, Feb 2011,
p92-96, 98, 100-102, 104, il, por
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1748
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Sit-In Movement Incorporated is slated to open a $5.7 million civil rights museum at the site of the 1960 sit-in at a Greensboro Woolworth's lunch counter.
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25608
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Twenty-five years later, The INDEPENDENT takes a look back at lessons learned from the Greensboro Sit-Ins. This reflection also includes personal interviews with residents that witnessed the Sit-Ins.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 3 Issue 1, January 18-31 1984,
p10-11, por
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