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By the end of the first week of sit-ins 50 years ago in Greensboro, N.C., the scores of black college students daring to break segregation's stranglehold on freedom by demanding service at whites' only lunch counters had attracted angry white mobs set on maintaining the status quo.
"There were a lot of counter-demonstrators," Lewis Brandon, one of the black students, recalled earlier this year to Yes! Weekly in Greensboro at the opening of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum there. "[Then] it got quiet.
"When I looked up," Brandon said, "the [North Carolina A&T] football players were standing at the top of the steps."
Store owners shooed away the mob and shut down their stores. The athletes girded what became a hallmark civil rights movement campaign that helped outlaw racial discrimination in this country.
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