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To: Sam who wrote (241828)	1/11/2014 12:54:36 AM
From: Sam	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541518

A piece of NC history that resonated across the country-- the Greensboro Four. Franklin McCain, civil rights era pioneer, dies at 71 Read more here: thestate.com excerpt: CHARLOTTE — Franklin McCain Sr. and three fellow college students became icons of the U.S. civil rights movement in 1960 when they sat down at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and asked for coffee. Within a month, sit-ins had spread to hundreds of cities across the country. .... As they had planned the previous evening, they entered the store about 3:20 p.m., made their purchases, and then sat at the nearly-empty lunch counter. A white waitress and the store manager told them that they could not be served. McCain said a black woman who cleared the counter told them to order food at the stand-up counter downstairs. An elderly white woman sitting at the counter got up and left. As she passed the students, she put her right hand on McCain’s shoulder and her left on McNeil’s. “I was convinced we were going to get an earful,” McCain recounted a half-century later. “But then she said, ‘Boys, I am so proud of you. I only wish you’d done this 10 years ago.’ “ McCain said it taught him never to stereotype anyone.