March 1960

Of the 2,000 citizen letters the Advisory Committee received regarding the decision to integrate the lunch counters, 73 percent favored integrated lunch counters. (That's almost 1,500 letters!)

The Greensboro Record reported a letter signed by 68 white citizens urged that "service to all customers at the lunch counters in these stores be entirely on a 'first come, first served' basis, just as it is in other areas of these establishments."

Chairman Zane and the Advisory Committee held numerous meetings with representatives from F.W. Woolworth, Kress, and other downtown businesses.

All refused to integrate. 

On March 31, a disappointed Edward Zane met with student leaders to break the news.

By the end of March, the sit-in Movement had spread to 55 cities in 13 states.

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