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You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend, on cspan3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. All weekend long American History tv is featuring greensboro, North Carolina. Greensboro is home to where civil rights activist started the sit in movements, inspiring nonviolent protest throughout the south. Our Time Warner Cable partners worked with our staff, and we recently traveled to greensboro to discover the citys rich history. Learn more about greensboro all weekend here on American History tv. We are in greensboro, North Carolina at the military...

American history tv. It is not as the gate city because of its ties to transportation. It is located in the piedmont region of central North Carolina. With the help of our Time Warner Cable partners, we will look at the history of greensboro. Visit that woolworths counter at the center of the civil rights count movement. Is that at the counter and ask to order coffee and pizza. The response was really mixed. Another waitress was saying something like, we dont serve colored people here. They came here to sit down and take that first step. Later, here about a deadly clash in 1979 between members...

Different mindsets. Cornwallis had this mindset of move forward and hit hard and continually hit and continually march. General greene had a mindset of hit and backup or retreat hit and backup or retreat. He had by the time this battle came, general greene had raised an army to almost twice the size of the british army. He felt pretty good about his odds. First, general cornwallis was in encamped at deep river, which is high point, 10 miles from here. General greene brought all of his soldiers in militia here at guilford courthouse. Set his lines of defense to wait for cornwallis p general gre...

I see out of the rocky mountains, i could see a gap where the piedro river flows south and through that gap i could see the desert of northern new mexico and just over the horizon, just about 120 miles away, is chaco canyon, the largest anastazi site in the southwest, just over the horizon. And in between these towers and chaco canyon there are fire signal stations up on top of buttes. Every fire signal station is in view of two other signal stations. Each of those, four, on and on and on so that a fire would be lit at one spot and everybody would know, you could send messages for hundreds of ...

Every time the moon came through the gab, they did massive construction for it. So you know it was the time and you know there was somebody pacing up there just checking whatever watch he had, looking at that gap and thinking, i hope this is the day. And it was the day. We stood there and waited and he said first light, we all looked and we couldnt see it. He had a better eye, he had been watching this much longer than us. But then we started to see the glow. And then the orb of the moon rose into this narrow gap between two twin towers looking north into the rocky mountains. And as that happe...