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Article: The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind., Kevin Leininger column: If you serve them, customers will come.
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- The News-Sentinel (Fort Wayne, IN)
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- September 21, 2006
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Byline: Kevin Leininger
Sep. 21--Dec. 1, 1955: A 42-year-old black woman named Rosa Parks refuses to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Ala., bus to a white man. Parks' arrest causes a young and relatively unknown local pastor named Martin Luther King Jr. to lead a boycott of the segregated bus system.
Feb. 1, 1960: Four black college students sit down in the "whites only" section of the lunch counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, N.C. They weren't served, but neither would they leave -- beginning the "Greensboro sit-in" that by mid-1961 had opened Woolworth's lunch counter to all races and helped end segregation elsewhere.
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...The News-Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Ind. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jul. 16--FORT WAYNE, Ind.--Wal-Mart opened its third Fort Wayne superstore today at 10420 Maysville Road ...
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