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Greensboro officials and leaders of the International Civil Rights Center & Museum have hammered out a deal to keep the museum afloat, although the City Council still must approve it, <a href ...
Teresa Prout, a city editor for the News-Record, a small newspaper in Greensboro, N. C., was kicking around ideas with her colleagues about how to publicize the opening of the Civil Rights Museum ...
The sit-ins, eventually more than 70 of them, spread across the South, making the Greensboro Four an important catalyst in the nation's budding civil rights movement.
GREENSBORO — Newspaper photographer Jack Moebes captured the first image of the Greensboro Four, striding down the sidewalk outside the Woolworth store on the first day of the 1960 sit-ins.
Fifty-seven years ago today, on February 1, 1960, four black college students staged an impromptu "sit-in" at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This particular sit-in, because it involved ...
What Trump-era protesters can learn from the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 The sit-ins were spectacularly effective. It’s worth considering why this movement worked and how to replicate its success.
This picture appeared in the Greensboro paper the following day, and the young men returned to the counter the next day. Others joined them. Soon, sit-ins began happening across the South.
Though it was a round-number anniversary — the first downtown Greensboro sit-in was 60 years ago on Feb. 1, 1960 — the A&T program stuck to its usual script.
Garrett Davis’ documentary on Greensboro Woolworth 1960 lunch counter sit-in “The Man Behind the Counter” screens in Chapel Hill, NC.
Jibreel Khazan and Joseph McNeil talked with reporters the day before N.C. A&amp;T's annual commemoration of the Woolworth sit-ins that started Feb. 1, 1960.