
Martin Luther King, Jr., center, visits the Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Durham, February 16, 1960. The store had closed the counter after sit-in demonstrations there the previous week. With King are civil rights activist Rev. Ralph Abernathy at left; Rev. Douglas Moore, who led Durham's first sit-in, in 1957 at the Royal Ice Cream Company, right of King; and an unidentified man at far right. (photograph by Jim Thornton, courtesy of the Herald-Sun)