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Carl Wesley Matthews sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Winston-Salem and asked to be served, launching a local sit-in movement. Winston-Salem

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Winston-Salem lunch-counter sit-in begins

Winston-Salem lunch-counter sit-in begins 1960

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Carl Wesley Matthews sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Winston-Salem and asked to be served, launching a local sit-in movement.

Date / period: February 8, 1960
Tags: Winston-Salem sit-in, Carl Wesley Matthews, civil rights
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Named source: User-provided regional calendar notes
Import source: User-provided local history dates dataset, 2026-05-21

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