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Segregation protest at an ice cream parlor on this site, June 23, 1957, led to court case testing dual racial facilities.

On June 23, 1957, the Royal Ice Cream sit-in began in Durham.

All this month we’re bringing you stories from North Carolina’s black history. Check back here each week day for a new tidbit from our state’s African American’s past. Though the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins are famous for sparking a national movement, they weren’t the first such action.