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HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Sixty years ago today a group of student staged sit-ins at drug stores, changing Houston forever. The first sit-in was at the Weingartens Supermarket on Almeda. Texas Southern University students marched from their campus to the Weingartens to challenge segregated lunch counters. They walked into the supermarket, sat down at the counter and asked to be …
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March 4, 2020
