Lunch at the Five and Ten: The Greensboro Sit-ins: a Contemporary HistoryA detailed account of the sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which ignited the civil rights movement in the United States. |
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Page 75
... V. O. Key in his Southern Politics : The prevailing mood in North Carolina is not hard to sense ; it is energetic and ambitious . The citizens are determined and confident ; they are on the move . The mood is at odds with much of the ...
... V. O. Key in his Southern Politics : The prevailing mood in North Carolina is not hard to sense ; it is energetic and ambitious . The citizens are determined and confident ; they are on the move . The mood is at odds with much of the ...
Page 77
... V. O. Key wrote , " It has been the vogue to be progres- sive . Willingness to accept new ideas , sense of community responsibility toward the Negro , feeling of common pur- pose , and relative prosperity had given North Carolina a more ...
... V. O. Key wrote , " It has been the vogue to be progres- sive . Willingness to accept new ideas , sense of community responsibility toward the Negro , feeling of common pur- pose , and relative prosperity had given North Carolina a more ...
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