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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.

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.

This week’s Wake Forest Marketing Summit will feature three international teams as well as six graduate and five undergraduate teams from across the U.S. Wake Forest’s MBA program among the best in world.

The Schools of Business MBA program has been ranked among the top 100 programs in the world and among the top 50 in the U.S., according to the Financial Times of London.