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- ...The world
can change in a day
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- Despite hard-fought gains
in the fight for racial equality, segregation remained firmly
entrenched in 1960 America. Black citizens in the South were
still treated as second-class citizens and their calls for justice
remained largely unheard by the nation. There had been some advances
in the arena of civil rights with the Brown v. the Board of Education
U.S. Supreme Court decision (1954), the Montgomery bus boycott
(1955-1956) and the federally enforced desegregation of Little
Rock (Ark.) High school (1957), but after that, strong defiance
by ardent segregationists pushed the Movement into retreat.
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- February 1, 1960
changed all that.
- Based largely on first
hand accounts and rare archival footage, the new documentary
film February One documents one volatile winter in Greensboro
that not only challenged public accommodation customs and laws
in North Carolina, but served as a blueprint for the wave of
non-violent civil rights protests that swept across the South
and the nation throughout the 1960's.
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