greensboro+sit-ins

By the late 1950s, Greensboro was one of the key places for black choice.Blacks had protested the discrimination in stores,restaurants,and other public places. Although one black resident had been elceted to the school board,black physicians could not practice medicine in the new Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital. Students at A&T University had even stuffled their feet in protest when a North Carolina governor, in a speech, referred to them as Nigras.

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