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A Lee Enterprises, Incorporated newspaper. Majority shareholder: David Hoffmann, Hoffmann Media Group.

Civil rights pioneers say this generation of demonstrators is 'on the verge of making history'

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At left, a News & Record file photo shows the last day of sit-down demonstrations at the intersection of Elm and Market streets in 1963 in Greensboro. At right, a protester gives a history lesson in front of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum on Elm Street in downtown Greensboro on May 30. (Woody Marshall/News & Record)

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GREENSBORO — Back in the 1950s, Bob Brown held a badge but could not arrest white people.

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