JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi on Tuesday unveiled a historical marker commemorating the sit-in exactly 50 years earlier at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Jackson, a pivotal event in ...

Tampa’s Untold Chapter in the Civil Rights Movement” will be at Tampa Theatre on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day at 3 p.m.

OKLAHOMA CITY — A new memorial located in downtown Oklahoma City honors the nation's first civil rights sit-in and civil rights leader Clara Luper. Last month, a new statue honoring Clara Luper was ...

In a significant moment for civil rights history, Simon Bouie and six other activists had their arrest records expunged over 60 years after they participated in a pivotal sit-in at a Columbia, South ...

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the ...

It’s totally Tuesday Oklahoma! Some of the topics on today’s show include the nation’s first civil rights sit-in site is now memorialized forever in downtown Oklahoma City! Rabies cases are on the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Franklin McCain, who helped spark a movement of nonviolent sit-in protests across the South by occupying a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, has died, his son said ...

How a simple act of grass-roots disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement and changed the social landscape of the American South On Feb. 1, 1960, at around 4:30 p.m., four black students from ...

IN JANUARY 1955. MORGAN STUDENTS, ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY, WERE WAITING AT LEXINGTON AND HOWARD FOR A BUS. IT WAS BITTERLY COLD OUT. THEY ENTERED READS SEEKING WARMTH.

The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...

Oklahoma City leaders are meeting on Wednesday to discuss the design plans for a new civil rights center that will serve as a museum operated by the Freedom Center.

Oklahoma City leaders are meeting on Wednesday to discuss the design plans for a new civil rights center that will serve as a ...