Judge hears arguments over Rankin County schools desegregation consent decree

7 Days After Greensboro: Durham's Forgotten Sit-Ins Discover the Durham Desegregation Movement (1960-1964), a multi-year civil rights campaign that began just seven days after the Greensboro sit-ins and featured some of the most innovative protest tactics in civil rights history. On February 8, 1960—one week after Greensboro—seventeen Black students from North Carolina College (now North Carolina Central University) staged sit-ins at three Durham lunch counters: Woolworth, Kress, and Walgreens.