From: Theodosia T. Shields [mailto:tshields@nccu.edu] Sent: Monday, February 06, 2012 12:36 PM To: Sandra Phoenix Subject: An article from www.newsobserver.com Theodosia T. Shields has sent you the following story: Hi Sandra, Please see the attached article and gallery from yesterday's program. It was quite a historic even and we are very excited!! Posted on Monday, Feb. 06, 2012 NCCU honors historic counter By JOHN MURAWSKI The half-century old F.W. Woolworth lunch counter looks like just the spot to enjoy a 10-cent cup of coffee and a 60-cent cheeseburger. Unless you were classified as a social untouchable - and legally branded as Colored. In that case, you wouldn't be served a meal at Woolworth, or other restaurants. The Formica-looking counter instead became the focal point of sit-ins, the front line of the nation's civil rights movement. Read More...<http://www.newsobserver.com/2012/02/06/1834011/nccu-honors-historic-counter.html?story_link=email_msg>