North Carolina: The Civil Rights Movement

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    Jim Crow South

  • Freedom Riders Enter North Carolina: Chapel Hill, Durham, Raleigh, Greensboro

    For the most part they didn't encounter violent resistance. However, a few were jailed along the way and one rider was assaulted. Chapel Hill was the most troubled stop.
  • Durham Ice Cream Parlor Sit-In

    Durham Ice Cream Parlor Sit-In
    Royal Ice Cream Parlor
  • Greensboro Sit-In

    Four N.C. A & T State University students protested at a "white only" lunch counter.