City of High Point issued the following announcement on Feb. 11.
1960, 26 William Penn High School students became the first high school students to stage a Woolworth’s sit-in. They refused to give up their seats at the counter of Woolworth’s in downtown High Point in a peaceful protest against segregation. To learn more about this historic event, check out the February 11 Monument on Wrenn Street, behind the former Woolworth’s building.
Photo and sculpture by Thomas Jay Warren
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