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3 unusual facts about Clarence Harris


Clarence Harris

He grew up and attended high school in Durham, North Carolina, where he began his career at the F. W. Woolworth Company store, in 1923, as an assistant stock room manager.

On February 1, 1960, Ezell A. Blair, Jr. (later Jimbaeel Khazan), Frank McCain, Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, four young African-American students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T), entered the downtown Greensboro Woolworth's and sat at the "whites only" lunch counter.

Clarence Lee "Curly" Harris (1905-1999) was the store manager at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, during the 1960 sit-ins.



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