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 ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sixty-seven years after a Black teacher and her group of Black students dared to challenge Jim Crow by sitting down at a Whites-Only lunch counter, Oklahoma City is finally honoring ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...

Greensboro, NC – It was not the first, but it is the one people remember. When four African American teenagers sat down to request service at Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro over 40 years ago the ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No Bail’ — and energized a movement. By Trip Gabriel The sit-in movement that ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Today marks one of the most significant days in Greensboro’s history. In 1960, four North Carolina A&T students refused to give up their seats at a lunch counter, sparking a ...