In January 2010, the New York Times wrote a review of the new International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. It is housed in the very same Woolworth building, the same "mundane luncheonette," where four 17-year-old freshmen at the all-black Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina sat down on Feb. 1, 1960 and attempted to order some food
That simple act in the American South set off "....[one of the] greatest political movements of the twentieth century...a cataclysmic social transformation."
Read about it here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/arts/design/01museum.html
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