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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC Feb 1

    Sit-in at whites-only Woolworth’s lunch counter begins, Greensboro NC, today 1960: #Moebespic.twitter.com/6qXp9xDma9

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      2. E. Vashawn Griggs‏ @GrindMode73 Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil..all students at North Carolina A&T

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      1. Elle  🌊‏ @beaurue Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Did you know that a year and a half before the NC sit-ins, civil rights activists in Oklahoma City were having sit-ins at lunch counters?http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/6383077021/claraluper …

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      2. Rob Priline‏ @RobPriline Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        And you can find those very chairs on display at the American History Museum in D.C.

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      3. Judy Brandt‏ @judywbrandt Feb 1
        Replying to @RobPriline @BeschlossDC

        One is in the Museum of African American Cumturepic.twitter.com/xrq1XORTLS

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      4. Rob Priline‏ @RobPriline Feb 1
        Replying to @judywbrandt @BeschlossDC

        American History Museum added a portion of the Greensboro lunch counter to its collection after the Woolworth store shut down. Today, it's on display as one of Museum's landmark objects.

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      1. Sarah J. Martin‏ @kshistorygirl Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Wichita's Dockum Drug Store sit-in took place 18 months earlier, starting July 19, 1958, 60 years ago this year. http://kshs.org/kansapedia/dockum-drug-store-sit-in/17048 …

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      1. Kurt Meyer‏ @KurtLMeyer Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Visited the site & saw the counter on a trip to NC a few years ago. These were brave young men who probably could not envision the new struggles & the many changes they helped give rise to. Heroes, they are, each & every one!

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      1. Botty McBotface‏ @AonghusMahon Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Everyone should know who Dion Diamond is. Especially in a time when we like to call each other Nazis. See the man talking down to him in this picture? That’s George Rockwell. He was the leader of the Nazis in America. That man could make you disappear. Dions bravery is legendarypic.twitter.com/DYzOWjm4ph

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      2. Charita Goshay‏ @cgoshayREP Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Always wondered what the guy behind the counter was thinking.

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      2. mountain girl‏ @hayes1942 Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        No one will understand how brave they were. When I see things like this it makes me ashamed to be an American. To see how we treated our fellow citizens. #SitIn

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      3. Melissa Ghorashy‏ @Melissa95298251 Feb 1
        Replying to @hayes1942 @BeschlossDC

        Visited @Ctr4CHR last year and sat at the lunch counter simulation exhibit. It was terrifying. So in awe of those who risked so much to work for change.

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      1. (((Jenniferlayne*)))‏ @Jenniferlayne53 Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        They could have died that day and knew it. Still they prevailed. Deep, deep respect.

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      1. ce‏ @kellygirl2004 Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @dmataconis

        We have such a shameful history that extends through to today

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      1. Judy Brandt‏ @judywbrandt Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        That Woolworth’s today 👇🏼pic.twitter.com/gQOkABztqg

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      1. Kdiviesti  🌊‏ @kdivies1 Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Those unbelievably brave men were the best of the best.

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      1. Judy Burns‏ @JudyBurns Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        History teacher Clara Luper (1923–2011) and the NAACP Youth Council in Oklahoma City that she advised initiated some of the first sit-ins in the civil rights movement, beginning in 1958. https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/civil-rights-act/multimedia/oklahoma-city-sit-ins.html …

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      1. pissandvinegar‏ @pissandvinegar1 Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        #CivilDisobedience can make a change. We need to do this again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and againpic.twitter.com/gk4Onw2lbc

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      2. JEFSantamonica‏ @JEFSantaMonica Feb 1
        Replying to @BeschlossDC @RNicholasBurns

        SICKENING. I saw a WHITES ONLY sign once as an 8 year old and went up to the manager and told him the sign was stupid. Naturally my father grabbed me back in the car and we left Vicksburg fast. Never went back to Mississippi, ever.

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      3. (((Jenniferlayne*)))‏ @Jenniferlayne53 Feb 1
        Replying to @JEFSantaMonica @BeschlossDC @RNicholasBurns

        Your poor dad, good on you, but your poor dad!

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