Civil Rights
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On the morning of Feb. 20, 1960, about 200 students from Virginia Union University staged sit-in protests around Richmond at a half-dozen lunch counters where black customers were not served. Here, students occupied all 74 stools in the G.C. Murphy department store’s whites-only lunch area for several hours. The store, as several others did, decided to close at about 1 p.m.; it reopened at 4 p.m., with the lunch counter roped off.--Richmond Times-Dispatch July 8, 2014