Learn more about Arkansas student sit-ins at the Pine Bluff Woolworth's lunch counter in 1963. A guest brought documents linked to the dramatic 1963 Pine Bluff sit-ins, where AM&N students protested ...
A Nashville restaurant owner is set to open a southern cuisine style restaurant honoring local Civil Rights participants. TomKats Hospitality is renovating the historical Woolworth building in ...
Google workers led sit-ins at headquarters from coast-to-coast, protesting the tech giant's contract with the Israeli military and the company's alleged complicity in the Israel-Hamas war. Tech ...
Meet the New Jersey woman who was pivotal to North Carolina sit-ins during the Civil Rights Movement
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) — The sit-ins of the South became a pivotal part of civil rights history, and in 1960, a North Carolina college student from the Philadelphia area took a stand by being one of the ...
HIGH POINT, N.C. (WGHP) — 64 years ago, a group of brave teenagers took a stand by taking a seat. Students from William Penn High School in High Point organized a sit-in at Woolworth’s lunch counter ...
On the "Seven Days of 1961" podcast, activists, many of whom were teenagers, share how they risked everything to challenge white supremacy. On episode six: Joyce Barrett tells her story of being ...
Sit-ins, marches, boycotts of segregated movie theaters and restaurants. Searing memories of how “my soul raged upon seeing the dogs of Bull Connor” in Alabama. A dramatic tale of a walkout in support ...
SHELBY, N.C. — Friday marked 62 years since a group of Black high school students in Shelby took a stand that changed their community forever. The Shelby Star documented the story of the Shelby ...
On Feb. 1, 1960, four young African-American men sat down at the whites-only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, N.C., and set in motion one of the most effective protest campaigns in ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- The four college freshmen walked quietly into a Greensboro dime store on a breezy Monday afternoon, bought a few items, then sat down at the "whites only" lunch counter -- and ...
Marilyn Luper Hildreth recalls coming up with the idea for the historic Katz Drug Store sit-ins from 1958, when she was just a child. Later this Fall, Oklahoma City will dedicate a new plaza in the ...
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