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 ...

TODAY, GREENSBORO IS MARKING THE 65TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIT INS THAT SPARKED A NATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. ON FEBRUARY 1ST, 1964, NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY STUDENTS SAT AT THE ...

In the 1960s, a wave of non-violent resistance surged across the United States as college students took a stand for civil rights, famously engaging in what they called “good trouble.” From arrests and ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro, North Carolina marked the 65th anniversary of the sit-ins at a Woolworth lunch counter that sparked a national civil rights movement. On February 1, 1960, four North ...

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 ...

Sixty-five years ago, Joseph McNeil and three fellow college students from North Carolina A&T took a stand against segregation by simply sitting down. On February 1, 1960, McNeil — along with Ezell ...

ST. LOUIS — When you think of sit-in demonstrations to desegregate public spaces, your mind might immediately go to Greensboro, North Carolina, where students staged famous protests at the Woolworth's ...

Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the Civil Rights Movement met again Friday for the first time since the early 1960s. IT WAS A REUNION SIX DECADES IN THE MAKING. TWO MEN WHO WORKED ...

In the summer of 1958, a small group of Black students led by teacher Clara Luper walked into Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City and quietly took their seats at the lunch counter. Their request ...

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 ...

A dedication ceremony will be held Saturday morning for a new plaza and statue immortalizing Oklahoma City's sit-ins and civil rights icon Clara Luper. The art installation commemorates when 13 ...