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.
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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