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Season 2/Episode 24: Civil Rights - The 1960s


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Despite making some gains, blacks still experienced blatant prejudice in their daily lives. On February 1, 1960, four college students took a stand against segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina when they refused to leave a Woolworth’s lunch counter without being served. Over the next several days, hundreds of people joined their cause. After some were arrested and charged with trespassing, protestors launched a boycott of all segregated lunch counters until the owners caved and the original four students were finally served at the Woolworth’s lunch counter where they’d first stood their ground. From there, the 1960s saw the integration of the University of Mississippi, the March on Washington and Selma, Freedom Riders, and growth of two ideologies: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X. 

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