THE SOUTH: Let 'Em Eat

Fortnight after its first victory in Nashville, Tenn.. the Negro sit-in movement for equality at Southern lunch counters won its second victory last week, when five downtown variety stores in Winston-Salem, N.C. opened their counters to Negroes without discrimination. Watching to see what happened were city detectives from Greensboro, N.C., where Negro college students staged the original sit-in demonstration back in early February. What the detectives saw was encouraging: whites and Negroes sat side by side without disorder, insults or even stares, as if things had never been any different.

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