Remembering the Winston-Salem sit-in
On Feb. 23, 1960, a group of Wake Forest students walked into the Woolworth's in downtown Winston-Salem and joined students from Winston-Salem State Teachers College to protest segregated lunch counters.
Twenty-one students were arrested that day — 10 white students from Wake Forest and 11 black students from Winston-Salem State. The students' non-violent protest, along with other protests in Winston-Salem, led to the desegregation of the city's restaurants and lunch counters on May 23 of that year.
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Wake Forest University is bringing together business leaders, leading researchers, entrepreneurs and scholars for a two-day conference to address America's growing energy problem and to lay the groundwork for solutions. Columnist and best-selling author Thomas Friedman will deliver the conference's keynote address.
The nation was watching as President Obama delivered his first State of the Union address on Wednesday night. So were members of the Wake Forest faculty who later provided this analysis of the president's speech.
With the political temperature rising again as we move towards crucial mid-term elections, a new book by political science professor David Coates aims to raise the quality of public debate on key issues, and to help progressive candidates avoid the fate of Martha Coakley in Massachusetts.