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On February 8, 1960, Carl Wesley Matthews, a Black resident of Winston-Salem, sat down alone at a whites-only lunch counter at a local department store (S.H. Kress) and asked to be served Winston-Salem

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Winston-Salem sit-in begins

Winston-Salem sit-in begins 1960

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On February 8, 1960, Carl Wesley Matthews, a Black resident of Winston-Salem, sat down alone at a whites-only lunch counter at a local department store (S.H. Kress) and asked to be served

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