In honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday, Fork in the Road presents this collection of historic photos from the lunch-counter sit-ins of the early 1960’s, which forever changed the history of ...

The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) played a pivotal role in the civil rights movement through sit-ins, marches and campaigns. Founded in 1960, the youth-led committee dedicated ...

A North Carolina State University team put together a virtual recreation of MLK's 1960 speech in Durham, NC. There he endorsed the "direct action" protests of sit-ins at lunch counters to end ...

Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated many local businesses but also demonstrated the power of ... a former teacher of Dr. Martin Luther King, ...

Forbes was a 20-year-old sophomore when Shaw hosted students and civil rights leaders, including Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., ...

By the end of March, the sit-ins had spread to 13 states, ... including Freedom Rides and the March on Washington where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his historic “I Have a Dream” speech.

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. knew. ... Sit-ins, boycotts. The Southern Christian Leadership Conference started backing local activists in their protests. King arrived in May 1964 to rally with them.

Rev. James Lawson, civil rights leader who led Nashville lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Rides, dies at 95 The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic ...

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 ...