Word: lexington
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lexington Dispatch...
...Lexington...
Nobody in Lexington or in all North Carolina is proud of what happened here last Thursday night...
...refer to Lexington's "segregated stores." Negroes are quite welcome in stores here, and their trade is an important factor in the business of most of our merchants...
...night, telling his family he was going to town because he was curious to see what would happen after the Negro sit-in attempts. The bullet hit Link in the head. He died on the way to a hospital in Winston-Salem, 20 miles away. State troopers had joined Lexington police and firemen by then. Using fire hoses, they drove away the crowd. Next day seven young Lexington Negroes and twelve whites were arrested. Police said the Negroes were armed with a zip gun, a shotgun and a sawed-off .22 caliber rifle...