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By Kelly M, March 7, 2009
First Sit-In Victory In North Carolina Marker
SHOWN IN SOURCE-SPECIFIED ORDER
1 ► North Carolina, Forsyth County, Winston-Salem — First Sit-In Victory In North Carolina —  |
| On February 8, 1960, Carl Wesley Matthews began the city's sit-in demonstration alone at lunch counters near this site and was soon joined by students from Winston-Salem Teachers College, Atkins High School, and Wake Forest College. The nonviolent . . . — — Map (db m16905) HM | |||
| 2 ► South Carolina, York County, Rock Hill — 46-37 — McCrory's Civil Rights Sit-ins / "Friendship Nine" — |
| McCrory's Civil Rights Sit-ins. This building, built in 1901, was occupied by McCrory's Five & Dime from 1937 to 1997. On February 12, 1960, black students from Friendship Jr. College in Rock Hill were denied service at the McCrory's lunch . . . — — Map (db m285082) HM | |||