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Web Extra: Extended Interview - Woolworth Sit In
Watch this extended interview with Civil Rights activists, Carl Matthews and Bill Stevens. On February 23, 1960, African-American students from Winston-Salem Teachers College and white students from Wake Forest College entered the Woolworth on North Liberty Street and sat at the lunch counter...
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