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===Civil rights era=== In 1960, a group of Black students from [[Orange County Training School|Lincoln High School]], called the [[Chapel Hill Nine]], participated a [[Sit-in movement|sit-in]] at [[Colonial Drugstore]] to protest the store's refusal to serve dine-in black customers.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kids Became Men at a Chapel Hill Lunch Counter - Carolina Alumni |url=https://alumni.unc.edu/news/kids-became-men-at-a-chapel-hill-lunch-counter/ |access-date=2025-04-30 |language=en}}</ref> In 1969, a year after the town fully integrated its schools, Chapel Hill elected [[Howard Nathaniel Lee|Howard Lee]] as mayor. It was the first majority-white municipality in the South to elect an African-American mayor.<ref name="Lee">{{cite web| author=Nicholas Graham| year=2004| title=This Month in North Carolina History| publisher=UNC University Libraries| url=http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/nchistory/may2004/| access-date=August 16, 2011| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111104171529/http://www.lib.unc.edu/ncc/ref/nchistory/may2004/| archive-date=November 4, 2011| url-status=dead}}</ref> Serving from 1969 to 1975, Lee helped establish [[Chapel Hill Transit]], the town's bus system, and the [[Mountains-to-Sea Trail|Mountains-to-Sea trail]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kramer |first=Melody |date=2023-02-16 |title=When Howard Lee moved to Colony Woods |url=https://triangleblogblog.com/2023/02/16/when-howard-lee-moved-to-colony-woods/ |access-date=2023-02-17 |website=Triangle Blog Blog |language=en-US}}</ref> Some 30 years later, in 2002, the state passed legislation to provide free service to all riders on local buses. The bus operations are funded through Chapel Hill and Carrboro town taxes, federal grants, and UNC student tuition. The change has resulted in a large increase in ridership, taking many cars off the roads. Several hybrid and articulated buses have been added recently. All buses carry GPS transmitters to report their location in real-time to a tracking web site. Buses can transport bicycles and have wheelchair lifts. In 1993, the town celebrated its bicentennial and founded the [[Chapel Hill Museum]]. This cultural community resource "exhibiting the character and characters of Chapel Hill, North Carolina" included among its permanent exhibits ''Alexander Julian'', ''History of the Chapel Hill Fire Department'', ''Chapel Hill's 1914 Fire Truck'', ''The [[James Taylor]] Story'', ''Farmer/James Pottery'', and ''The [[Paul Green (playwright)|Paul Green]] Legacy''.<ref>{{cite web | year=2011 | title=Ongoing Exhibits | publisher=The Chapel Hill Museum | url=http://chapelhillmuseum.org/Exhibits/Ongoing/ | access-date=August 3, 2011 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110813112326/http://chapelhillmuseum.org/Exhibits/Ongoing/ | archive-date=August 13, 2011 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In addition to the Carolina Inn, the [[Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)|Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House]], [[Chapel Hill Historic District (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)|Chapel Hill Historic District]], [[Chapel Hill Town Hall]], [[Chapel of the Cross (Chapel Hill, North Carolina)|Chapel of the Cross]], [[Gimghoul Neighborhood Historic District]], [[Alexander Hogan Plantation]], [[Old Chapel Hill Cemetery]], [[Old East|Old East, University of North Carolina]], [[Playmakers Theatre]], [[Rocky Ridge Farm Historic District]], and [[West Chapel Hill Historic District]] are listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]].<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref>
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