The night before they staged the first college sit-in, the four young men stayed up late in this college dormitory.

They discussed racial segregation in the United States and what could be done about it.

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W. Kerr Scott Hall still is a major dormitory at North Carolina A and T.

The four young men decided to protest racial segregation without any help or guidance from older persons.

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This is a rear view of W. Scott Kerr Hall.  Somewhere in this building, behind room windows such as these, the college Sit-In Movement was born.

It was the young men's decision, and their decision alone, to act.

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As the Civil Rights Movement progressed, Martin Luther King, Jr., visited North Carolina A and T.

He gave a major speech in this auditorium building.

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