An iconic North Carolina ... sitting at the same lunch counter where four Black students peacefully protested for civil rights decades prior — was captured in photos and gained national attention.

Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four college freshmen walked up to the lunch counter ... for the civil rights movement.

Four years after that , the Civil Rights Act of 1964 would mandate all businesses to desegregate. The sit-in movement ... These two pictures are of a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter ...

En español | Fifty four years ago this month, the civil rights movement exploded into America’s consciousness ... N.C., in support of the lunch counter sit-in taking place inside, while a white ...

En español | In a largely behind-the-scenes career that spanned more than five decades, Baker worked with many famous civil rights leaders ... helped ignite a national movement by leading a sit-in ...