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When four African American North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students refused to leave the lunch-counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro they started the first non-violent, "sit-in" movement. Although the protesters practiced non-violence, their opponents did not. See how nonviolence was used to end racial segregation throughout the South.
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