A plaque unveiled formally acknowledges Baltimore as the first American city to organize a peaceful, non-violent civil rights sit-in, occurring five years before the more widely organized protest ...

On his second day in office, President Donald Trump labeled O.F.C.C.P.’s efforts to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act illegal ...

The Greensboro sit-in helped ignite a nationwide push for civil rights, leading to lasting changes in American society. By year's end, 75,000 students had joined, and 3,600 were arrested.

During the Civil Rights Movement, restaurants were vital for protesters and organizers to gather. Here are some of the most ...

1960s Civil Rights Protesters Who Staged Historic Sit-In Finally Have Arrest Records Cleared Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the ...

Charles Barr, left, and Simon Bouie, right, wait for a hearing to start where their records were cleared after they were arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-White South Carolina lunch counter ...

American civil rights activist Bayard Rustin (1912 - 1987), ... beginning by participating in the first wave of lunch counter sit-ins in Tennessee, per the U.S. Civil Rights Trail.

The FBI and the Civil Rights Movement The Bureau of Investigations was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1907, and renamed the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in 1935. J.

As for the returned artifacts, the Smithsonian confirmed that two objects belonging to a civil rights leader were recently sent back — but stressed that it had nothing to do with the sit-in exhibit.

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got ...

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in ...

Simon Bouie was arrested in 1960 for sitting at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina. On Friday, that arrest and the records of six of his friends were expunged.