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DescriptionBenjamin Cowins during a sit-in at McCrory's lunch counter in Tallahassee.jpg
English: Accompanying note: "With money in his hand, FAMU student Benjamin Cowins tries to get service at a McCrory's lunch counter on February 21, 1961. He looks toward the waitress, who is ignoring him. Two weeks later he was arrested at a Neisners lunch counter, which led to his spending thirty days in jail."
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