On February 1st at 4:30 pm four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat down at a whites only lunch counter inside a Woolsworth's Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina and requested to be served. ... Finally the students chose to boycott all stores that had segregated lunch counters. The earnings of these stores dropped by over 30%, causing these stores to end their policy on segregated lunch counters. ...

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