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New Jersey native Nancy Kirby was pivotal to North Carolina sit-ins, Civil Rights Movement
Nancy Kirby, who grew up in Haddonfield, New Jersey, went on to attend Bennett College in North Carolina, where she helped organize the sit-ins at whites-only lunch counters in Greensboro in 1960.