High Point's Woolworth sit in helped move a country

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HIGH POINT, N.C. (AP) - As word spread about the sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro 61 years ago, four teenagers began organizing their own sit-in - believed to be the first in the nation by high school students. One of them, Mary Lou Blakeney, stood ...

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