This pleasant city is usually seen in conjunction with nearby Winston-Salem. Greensboro offers the Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, site of a Revolutionary War battle between Gen. Nathanael Greene of the Patriots and British Gen. Charles Cornwallis in 1781. More recent history was created in 1960, when local black college students protested segregation by sitting down at a whites-only lunch counter and staying there until the city agreed to integrate its restaurants. A section of the famous lunch counter is preserved in the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. Greensboro is 70 mi/115 km west of Raleigh.
