Annually, in performing arts and spoken word, the city of High Point recalls the disciplined courage and inspiring actions of 26 high school students who sat en masse on February 11, 1960, integrating the Whites-only lunch counter at the downtown F.W. Woolworth. This year, Mary Lou Blakeney, one of the student leaders of the 1960s, […]

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