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Services Put Focus on Sit-Ins

Date: January 28, 1980

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This Greensboro Daily News article by staff writers Kenneth Campbell and Lindsey Gruson, published January 28, 1980, reports on church services commemorating the twentieth anniversary of the Greensboro Woolworth store sit-ins. Also included is a summary of upcoming events for the “commemoration week.”

This article was clipped and saved in a scrapbook about the twentieth anniversary of the sit-ins made by Clarence L. “Curly” Harris, manager of the Greensboro Woolworth store at the time of the 1960 sit-ins.

• Business desegregation/sit-ins, 1960

Format of original: Newspaper Clippings

Collection: Clarence Lee Harris Papers

Repository: The University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Item#: 1.4.1046

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