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Black History Month: Franklin McCain — AARP
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Black History Month: Franklin McCain — AARP

Franklin McCain was a civil rights pioneer who participated in a lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, N.C., in 1960 to protest segregation. That event is credited with leading to other key chapters of the civil rights era.

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