Four African-American North Carolina A&T University students sit down at a Woolworth's lunch counter and, after being denied service, refuse to leave. These "sit-ins" spread across the Southeast, as students continued to fight segregation policies against African-Americans. On July 26, Woolworth's ended its company-wide segregation and served whites and blacks together.
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