Fifty Years Later, N.C. Sit-In Site Becomes Museum

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Sat, 01/30/2010 - 11:00pm

Fifty years ago, on Feb. 1, four black college students sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and asked to be served.

Their action sparked a movement that helped lead to the integration of public places. Now the building that housed that lunch counter is a civil rights museum, opening Feb. 1.

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