HIGH POINT (AP) ó A unique lunch-counter sit-in staged in North Carolina 49 years ago will be recalled in a ceremony during which a memorial will be unveiled.
A group of 26 high school students went to the Woolworth’s lunch counter in downtown High Point on Feb. 11, 1960, 10 days after students from North Carolina A&T State University held their more famous sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in nearby Greensboro. But the latter event was believed to be the civil rights movement’s only such protest orchestrated by high school students.
The new memorial of marble and bronze is being dedicated Wednesday afternoon. It was crafted by Oregon artist Thomas Jay Warren, who also did the nearby statue of High Point native and jazz great John Coltrane.