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February One: The Story Of The Greensboro Four

In one remarkable day, four college freshmen changed the course of American history. On February 1, 1960, the Greensboro Four began a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in North Carolina. The act of simply sitting down to order food in a restaurant that refused service to anyone but whites is now widely regarded as one of the pivotal moments in the American civil rights movement.

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