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Chapel Hill, N.C., Nov. 27 -- The town of Chapel Hill issued the following press release:
On Feb. 28, 1960, nine black students from Lincoln High School sat down at the Colonial Drug Store counter, asking for the same service that whites received. Those young men, now known as the "Chapel Hill Nine," created the spark for Chapel Hill's Civil Rights Movement, a struggle that lasted throughout the 1960s. At 7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 30, the community is invited to gather at Chapel Hill Public Library to honor the Chapel Hill Nine and celebrate the launch of Opening Our Future, a new traveling exhibit about this period of our community's history.
The exhibit is...