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Kamala Harris takes a seat at NC lunch counter where 4 students made history in 1960 Dawn Baumgartner Vaughan, The News & Observer (Raleigh, N.C.)
Apr. 20 RALEIGH The image said it all: the first Black vice president of the United States took a seat at the same Southern lunch counter where four Black college students sat on Feb. 1, 1960, leading to a wave of sit-ins across the country during the civil rights movement.
The moment captured in photos that gained attention nationwide came late Monday at the end of Vice President Kamala Harris s visit to North Carolina, where she pitched the Biden administration s new infrastructure plan.