After 50 years of waiting, last Sunday the State of North Carolina finally officially recognized a major civil rights event and put up a historical marker at the site of the 1957 Royal Ice Cream sit-in in Durham, NC.
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The peaceful protest at the ice cream shop took place three years before the Woolworth sit-ins in Greensboro, which received much more attention in the press.
However, the Durham protest did test the legality of segregated facilities in court after seven people were arrested, and helped pave the way for other peaceful organized civil rights demonstrations across the South.
Last June, the State of North Carolina said it would put up a historical marker next to the former location of the Royal Ice Cream Shop in Durham. The state had refused a previous request in 2002, saying the site was not historically significant.
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