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Greensboro NC played a central role in the start of the civil rights movement when on Feb1 1960, four young black students from The Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (now N.C. A&T State University) sat down at the FW Woolworth's store's "whites only" lunch counter and challenged the institution of segregation..In 1993 the Woolworth's building was about to become a parking lot, instead it was turned into a civil rights museum

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GREENSBORO N.C. early voting 2012
Greensboro NC played a central role in the start of the civil rights movement when on Feb1 1960, four young black students from The Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina (now N.C. A&T State University) sat down at the FW Woolworth's store's "whites only" lunch counter and challenged the institution of segregation..In 1993 the Woolworth's building was about to become a parking lot, instead it was turned into a civil rights museum