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World Service,01 Jul 2012,14 mins

Greensboro Lunch Counter Sit-in

Witness History

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Franklin McCain was one of four young black men who asked to be served at a 'whites-only' lunch counter in a branch of Woolworths in Greensboro North Carolina in 1960. What happened next would change America. In this edition of Witness, Franklin McCain speaks to Alan Johnston.

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