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...achieve equality in sitting down at lunch counters won three more victories last week. Variety stores (all of them national chains: Woolworth, Kress, Grant) in Durham, N.C., Chattanooga, Tenn., and Miami, Fla. opened counters to all customers without discrimination. Since the sit-in movement began last February in Greensboro N.C., counters have been desegregated in 32 other cities and counties in the South and the border states...
...first victory in Nashville, Tenn.. the Negro sit-in movement for equality at Southern lunch counters won its second victory last week, when five downtown variety stores in Winston-Salem, N.C. opened their counters to Negroes without discrimination. Watching to see what happened were city detectives from Greensboro, N.C., where Negro college students staged the original sit-in demonstration back in early February. What the detectives saw was encouraging: whites and Negroes sat side by side without disorder, insults or even stares, as if things had never been any different...
...were on the march last week in a widespread, nonviolent protest the likes of which the U.S. had never seen. In the eleven weeks since four young Negro college students staged the first sitdown demonstration against segregation at the lunch counter of a Woolworth five-and-dime store in Greensboro, N.C. (TIME, Feb. 22 et seq.), the lunch-counter movement had spread through the moderate border states and the diehard Deep South like a dry-summer forest fire in a stiff breeze...
...Greensboro. N.C., 45 students were arrested on trespass charges for refusing to leave the lunch counter at an S. H. Kress & Co. five-and-dime. Among them: Ezell Blair Jr., 18, leader of the original sit-in incident...
Passive resistance hardened in the South last week. Some 4,000 students at segregated Southern University (all Negro) in Baton Rouge, La. threatened to withdraw because 18 students had been suspended for sitdowns. Students in Greensboro, N.C. went back to picketing after Woolworth's and Kress's refused to integrate their lunch counters. In Marshall, Texas police broke up a crowd of Negro demonstrators by training a fire hose on them. But while police clamped down on demonstrations in the South, sympathy demonstrations by white students spread over campuses in the North...