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- Civil rights era · 1945–1975
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The Chapel Hill Nine sit-in
Nine Black young men held Chapel Hill’s first sit-in at Colonial Drug.
Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events
People: Harold Foster · William Cureton · John Farrington · Earl Geer · David Mason Jr. · Clarence Merritt Jr. · James Merritt · Douglas Perry · Albert Williams
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Lincoln High students picket Colonial Drug and sit in at the Bus Station Cafe
The day after the sit-in, nearly 100 Black high school students picketed Colonial Drug after manager John Carswell roped off its booths, while others filled the counter at the Bus Station Cafe until proprietor Leo Eliadis closed it and were served standing at the Long Meadow Dairy Bar.
Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events
People: Harold Foster · Hilliard Caldwell
Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School
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The Chapel Hill sit-in movement forms an executive committee and retains counsel
At a Tuesday night meeting the Lincoln High demonstrators and their adult supporters organized, set up an executive committee to coordinate the lunch-counter protests and acquired legal counsel.
Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events
People: Harold Foster · Hilliard Caldwell
Subject: Orange County Training School / Lincoln High School
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The Chapel Hill CORE Committee rejects a second truce and resumes picketing as 27 ministers back the protests
After a week-long pause the students' 12-member executive committee, led by Harold Foster, declined the Human Relations Committee's request for a second truce and resumed afternoon picketing at Colonial Drug and Long Meadow Dairy. Twenty-seven Chapel Hill ministers issued a statement commending the peaceful, non-violent picketing.
Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events
People: Harold Foster · Dudley Dewitt Carroll
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Chapel Hill aldermen refuse Chief Blake's picketing-control ordinance
The Board of Aldermen unanimously declined to pass an ordinance against blocking sidewalks that Police Chief William W. Blake had requested as a safety measure, saying its passage would be misread as interference with the peaceful picketing at Colonial Drug.
Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events
- Recent decades · 1976–2026
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The Town of Chapel Hill unveils the Chapel Hill Nine marker at the Colonial Drug site
On the sixtieth anniversary of the sit-in the town dedicated sculptor Stephen Hayes's stone-based marker at 450 West Franklin Street, naming the nine students; four of them, Dave Mason Jr., James Merritt, Douglas Perry and Albert Williams, attended the unveiling.
Part of Chapel Hill freedom movement, 1960–1964 · 35 events
People: David Mason Jr. · James Merritt · Douglas Perry · Albert Williams
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