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In the United States of America, no human being should have to wait on the "free market" so that they can eat lunch at Woolworth's or stay in a Holiday Inn. Federal troops in Alabama and Mississippi sent a clear signal that the "Jim Crow" days were over. Some nebulous concept of the deity of free markets certainly didn't.

FYI The students were refused service on Feb. 1, 1960 less than 6 months later Woolworth reversed it's policy. It took the Federal government another three and half years to pass the Civil Rights act of 1964. Which entity moved faster?