LaRue Moore is proof that it’s never too late to chase your dreams.
At 77 years old, she’s pursuing a degree in African American studies at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) — the very campus where, as a young girl, she witnessed the early days of sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement in Greensboro, NC, according to WFMY News 2. In 1960, the A&T Four, four Black freshmen, had sat at a whites–only lunch counter at F.W. Woolworth’s store.
Now, Moore has returned as a witness to history and a student ready to shape her own legacy…