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 ...

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 ...

Earlier today, Democratic House members ended their 25-plus hour sit-in demanding a vote on gun control. Civil rights leader and Georgia Congressman John Lewis led the rare show of protest. As it drew ...

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 ...

PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING. LET’S BRING IN OUR JOSHUA DAVIS. HE IS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER AND MUSEUM FROM THE VERY SAME COUNTER THAT MCNEIL, KAZAN AND MCCAIN, AS WELL AS DAVID RICHMOND ...

Campus police struggle with anti-war demonstrators who crashed through a police barricade and set up picket lines around the Student Placement Center at the University of California, Berkeley in 1967.

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Sixty-four years ago, four college students in Greensboro sat down and made history. On February 1, 1960, four Black freshmen from the Agricultural and Technical College of ...

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 ...

A sculpture that depicts the start of the historic Oklahoma City sit-in movement was lifted by crane and installed at a downtown site on Monday. The 8,000 pound bronze sculpture traveled from ...