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63 relations: Alexandria Black History Museum, Anne Moody, Baltimore, Bennett College, Charlotte, North Carolina, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Chicago, Civil Rights Act of 1964, Civil rights movement, Clarence Harris, Coming of Age in Mississippi, Congress of Racial Equality, David Richmond (activist), Desegregation, Dockum Drug Store sit-in, Durham, North Carolina, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ezell Blair Jr., F. W. Woolworth Building (Lexington, Kentucky), F. W. Woolworth Company, February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four, Film, Franklin McCain, Greensboro, North Carolina, History of the United States, International Civil Rights Center and Museum, Jackson, Mississippi, Jackson, Tennessee, James B. Dudley High School, James Lawson (activist), Joseph McNeil, Ku Klux Klan, Library of Congress, Lunch counter, Martin Luther King Jr., Nashville sit-ins, Nashville Student Movement, Nashville, Tennessee, Nevada, Nonviolence, North Carolina A&T State University, Ohio, Racial segregation in the United States, Raleigh, North Carolina, Richmond, Virginia, S. H. Kress & Co., Samuel Wilbert Tucker, Sit-in, Sit-in movement, Smithsonian Institution, ..., Southern United States, St. Louis, Stein and Day, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Television, Tennessee, Timeline of the civil rights movement, U.S. state, United Kingdom, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Walgreens, Wichita, Kansas, Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Expand index (13 more) »
Alexandria Black History Museum
The Alexandria Black History Museum, located at 902 Wythe St., Alexandria, Virginia, is operated by the City of Alexandria.
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Anne Moody
Anne Moody (September 15, 1940 – February 5, 2015) was an American author who wrote about her experiences growing up poor and black in rural Mississippi, and her involvement in the Civil Rights Movement through the NAACP, CORE and SNCC.
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Baltimore
Baltimore is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the 30th-most populous city in the United States.
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Bennett College
Bennett College is a private four-year historically black liberal arts college for women located in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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Charlotte, North Carolina
Charlotte is the most populous city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Chattanooga, Tennessee
Chattanooga is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, with a population of 177,571 in 2016.
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Civil Rights Act of 1964
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is a landmark civil rights and US labor law in the United States that outlaws discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.
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Civil rights movement
The civil rights movement (also known as the African-American civil rights movement, American civil rights movement and other terms) was a decades-long movement with the goal of securing legal rights for African Americans that other Americans already held.
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Clarence Harris
Clarence Lee "Curly" Harris (1905–1999) was the store manager at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the 1960 sit-ins.
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Coming of Age in Mississippi
Coming of Age in Mississippi is a 1968 memoir by Anne Moody about growing up in rural Mississippi in the mid-20th century as an African-American woman.
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Congress of Racial Equality
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) is an African-American civil rights organization in the United States that played a pivotal role for African Americans in the Civil Rights Movement.
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David Richmond (activist)
David Leinail Richmond (April 20, 1941 – December 7, 1990) was a civil rights activist.
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Desegregation
Desegregation is the process of ending the separation of two groups usually referring to races.
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Dockum Drug Store sit-in
The Dockum Drug Store sit-in was one of the first organized lunch counter sit-ins for the purpose of integrating segregated establishments in the United States.
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Durham, North Carolina
Durham is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower (October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969) was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th President of the United States from 1953 to 1961.
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Ezell Blair Jr.
Jibreel Khazan (born Ezell Alexander Blair Jr.; October 18, 1941) is a civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four; a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.
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F. W. Woolworth Building (Lexington, Kentucky)
The Woolworth, F.W., Building was a historic department store building located in Lexington, Kentucky, that served as a retail location for the F. W. Woolworth Company from 1946 to 1990.
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F. W. Woolworth Company
The F. W. Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's or Woolworth) was a retail company and one of the original pioneers of the five-and-dime store.
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February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four is a 2003 documentary film by Rebecca Cerese and Steven Channing.
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Film
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, moving pícture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images that, when shown on a screen, create the illusion of moving images.
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Franklin McCain
Franklin Eugene McCain (January 3, 1941 – January 9, 2014) was an American civil rights activist and member of the Greensboro Four.
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Greensboro, North Carolina
Greensboro (formerly Greensborough) is a city in the U.S. state of North Carolina.
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History of the United States
The history of the United States began with the settlement of Indigenous people before 15,000 BC.
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International Civil Rights Center and Museum
The International Civil Rights Center & Museum (ICRCM) is located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
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Jackson, Mississippi
Jackson, officially the City of Jackson, is the capital city and largest urban center of the U.S. state of Mississippi.
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Jackson, Tennessee
Jackson is a city in and the county seat of Madison County, Tennessee.
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James B. Dudley High School
James Benson Dudley High School is located in the southeastern quadrant of Guilford County in the city of Greensboro, North Carolina.
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James Lawson (activist)
James Morris Lawson, Jr. (born September 22, 1928) is an American activist and university professor.
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Joseph McNeil
Joseph Alfred McNeil (born March 25, 1942) is a retired major general in the United States Air Force who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four; a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.
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Ku Klux Klan
The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.
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Library of Congress
The Library of Congress (LOC) is the research library that officially serves the United States Congress and is the de facto national library of the United States.
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Lunch counter
A lunch counter (also known as a luncheonette) is a small restaurant, much like a diner, where the patron sits on a stool on one side of the counter and the server or person preparing the food serves from the other side of the counter, where the kitchen or limited food preparation area is.
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Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement from 1954 until his death in 1968.
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Nashville sit-ins
The Nashville sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, were part of a nonviolent direct action campaign to end racial segregation at lunch counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee.
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Nashville Student Movement
The Nashville Student Movement was an organization that challenged racial segregation in Nashville, Tennessee during the Civil Rights Movement.
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Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County.
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Nevada
Nevada (see pronunciations) is a state in the Western, Mountain West, and Southwestern regions of the United States of America.
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Nonviolence
Nonviolence is the personal practice of being harmless to self and others under every condition.
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North Carolina A&T State University
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (also known as North Carolina A&T State University, North Carolina A&T, N.C. A&T, or simply A&T) is a public, coeducational, historically black, research university located in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
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Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the Great Lakes region of the United States.
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Racial segregation in the United States
Racial segregation in the United States, as a general term, includes the segregation or separation of access to facilities, services, and opportunities such as housing, medical care, education, employment, and transportation along racial lines.
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Raleigh, North Carolina
Raleigh is the capital of the state of North Carolina and the seat of Wake County in the United States.
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Richmond, Virginia
Richmond is the capital of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.
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S. H. Kress & Co.
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Samuel Wilbert Tucker
Samuel Wilbert Tucker (June 18, 1913 – October 19, 1990) was an American lawyer and a cooperating attorney with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Sit-in
A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or economic change.
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Sit-in movement
The sit-in movement, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North Carolina.
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Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution, established on August 10, 1846 "for the increase and diffusion of knowledge," is a group of museums and research centers administered by the Government of the United States.
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Southern United States
The Southern United States, also known as the American South, Dixie, Dixieland, or simply the South, is a region of the United States of America.
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St. Louis
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Stein and Day
Stein and Day, Inc. was an American publishing company founded by Sol Stein and his wife Patricia Day in 1962.
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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC, often pronounced) was one of the major Civil Rights Movement organizations of the 1960s.
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Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
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Tennessee
Tennessee (translit) is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States.
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Timeline of the civil rights movement
This is a timeline of the civil rights movement, a nonviolent freedom movement to gain legal equality and the enforcement of constitutional rights for African Americans.
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U.S. state
A state is a constituent political entity of the United States.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.
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University of North Carolina at Greensboro
The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), also known as UNC Greensboro, is a public coeducational and Research university in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States and is a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina system.
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Walgreens
The Walgreen Company (or simply Walgreens) is an American company that operates as the second-largest pharmacy store chain in the United States behind CVS Health.
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Wichita, Kansas
Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.
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Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Winston-Salem is a city in and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. With a 2015 estimated population of 241,218, it is the second largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region and the 5th-most populous city in North Carolina, and the 89th-most populous city in the United States. Winston-Salem is home to the tallest office building in the region, 100 North Main Street, formerly the Wachovia Building and now known locally as the Wells Fargo Center. Winston-Salem is called the "Twin City" for its dual heritage and "City of the Arts and Innovation" for its dedication to fine arts and theater and technological research. "Camel City" is a reference to the city's historic involvement in the tobacco industry related to locally based R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company's Camel cigarettes. Many locals refer to the city as "Winston" in informal speech. Another nickname, "the Dash," comes from the (-) in the city's name, although technically it is a hyphen, not a dash; this nickname is only used by the local minor league baseball team, the Winston-Salem Dash. In 2012, the city was listed among the 10 best places to retire in the U.S. by CBS MoneyWatch.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
