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A First Look at the International Civil Rights Museum

In Civil Rights, Politics & Law posted by TD Staff

The museum in Greensboro is scheduled to open Feb. 1 in the old Woolworth Building, where the Greensboro Sit-in happened almost fifty years ago.

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The museum will include the original Woolworth lunch counter, where four North Carolina A & T students started a sit-in in 1960.



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