Word: thawed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even as the civil rights impasse seemed to be freezing hard, there were signs of thaw on Southern fringes. In San Antonio, a Negro girl sipped a Coke at a lunch counter previously reserved for whites only. "I feel funny," she said, "but it's nice of them to serve us." San Antonio (pop. 575,000) had responded to appeals from its Negro population (9%) for lunch-counter equality after several meetings of white and Negro clergymen, businessmen and store managers. Opened to Negroes without incident were lunch counters in seven variety and 23 drugstores. Also, six Negro students...