
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 Garson McLeod, Durham County sheriff’s deputy, at left; Rev. Douglas Moore, who led Durham's first sit-in, at the Royal Ice Cream Company, in 1957; and an unidentified man. (photograph by Jim Thornton, courtesy of the Herald-Sun)