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The Greensboro lunch counter sit-in was the first major event in the 1960s. Four African American students staged a nonviolent sit-in at a segregated F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter. This sit-in was the catalyst for a nationwide sit-in movement that challenged the racial segregation in private businesses.
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President John Kennedy was elected. -
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