Zooming in on History

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Zooming in on History
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Look at this picture What details tell you when
this picture was taken?
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What do you think this man is thinking?
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What do you think these men are doing in this
place?
What makes you think so?
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Ronald Martin, Robert Patterson, and Mark Martin
stage sit-down strike after being refused service
at an F.W. Woolworth luncheon counter,
Greensboro, N.C. 1960. New York World-Telegram
Sun Photograph Collection, Prints and Photographs
Division
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So now

• What inferences can we make about conditions for
  African Americans in the 1950s and 1960s in the
  South?
• What questions do you have about segregation?
• Where should we go to find answers?