The plan: March up to the whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth’s dime store in downtown Greensboro, sit down and refuse to leave until they were served. Sit-in protests had been held ...

Feb. 1, 2025, marked 65 years since four Black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter at Woolworth's in ...

Kelton Edmonds doesn’t just know the history of the “Greensboro Four,” the group of Black freshman students at North Carolina Architectural & Technical State College, who staged the first ...

It was illegal for a Black person to sit at the White lunch counter. To protest this law, African-Americans sat at the Whites-only lunch counters day after day until they were taken away by the ...

The "Greensboro Four" re-enact their 1960 lunch counter sit-in on February 2, 1990. Franklin McCain, third from left, died on January 10, 2013. (Chuck Burton/Associated Press) What happened in ...

February is Black History Month, an appropriate time for celebrating the struggles, triumphs and contributions of this nation’s African American citizens. Born in February were President Abraham ...

We are approaching the 65th anniversary of a historic Civil Rights Movement event here in the Triad, known as the Greensboro ...

Black activists staged one of the first sit-ins at a lunch counter to protest racial segregation in Greensboro, North Carolina. These kinds of protests would become staples of civil disobedience ...