In a collective, voluntary move, lunch counters and cafeterias at seven Alamo City businesses integrated on March 16, 1960, ...

A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, which was one of the first lunch counter sit ... important tactics of the civil rights movement throughout the ...

The Richmond 34 Gallery will honor the Virginia Union University students who led a pivotal 1960 sit-in against segregation.

Protest movements played a decisive role in shaping the history of our rebellion-born nation. In the 20th century alone, mass ...

Another Wichita Woolworth store, which also had a lunch counter, lasted at the Ken-Mar Shopping Center at 13th and Oliver until 1993. Other Woolworth stores also had operated in Eastgate Plaza at ...

A production partly aimed at students that highlights Tampa’s history in the civil rights movement lands at a time when the ...

Democracy needs defending. This generation has a rendezvous to cross its Edmund Pettus Bridge. Let them take inspiration from ...

Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated ... cooperation and non-violent protest. In 1960, as civil rights protests throughout the South made headlines ...

If Selma was the apex of the civil rights movement, we are now witnessing the apex of the anti-human rights backlash – heard in President Donald Trump’s absurd claim, echoed by acolytes like Gov.

who recalls his civil rights experience from the same Woolworth’s lunch counter — now a museum exhibit The 30-minute film from Winston-Salem playwright and filmmaker Garrett Davis screens ...

On February 1, 1960, McNeil — along with Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond and Franklin McCain, who were known as the "Greensboro Four"— sat at a Whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in ...