This picture appeared in the Greensboro paper the following day, and the young men returned to the counter the next day. Others joined them. Soon, sit-ins began happening across the South.

GREENSBORO — Newspaper photographer Jack Moebes captured the first image of the Greensboro Four, striding down the sidewalk outside the Woolworth store on the first day of the 1960 sit-ins.

Garrett Davis’ documentary on Greensboro Woolworth 1960 lunch counter sit-in “The Man Behind the Counter” screens in Chapel Hill, NC.

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.

Garrett Davis’ documentary on Greensboro Woolworth 1960 lunch counter sit-in “The Man Behind the Counter” screens in Chapel Hill, NC.

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.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Right now, a report is out claiming that a portion of the historic F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from the Greensboro sit-ins would be removed from the Smithsonian's National ...

Those were the words of Clarence Henderson to students at Parkland High School, and it’s a lesson he’s carried with him in the decades since the Greensboro sit-ins and the fight for civil rights.

On This Day: Greensboro, North Carolina Sit-In. On February 1, 1960, a group of African American students organized a nonviolent sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Woolworth's department ...

5.40. now, the triad is home to a new national historic landmark, the f.w. woolworth building in greensboro got the designation for its connection to the civil rights movement.

Garrett Davis’ documentary on Greensboro Woolworth 1960 lunch counter sit-in “The Man Behind the Counter” screens in Chapel Hill, NC.

Garrett Davis’ documentary on Greensboro Woolworth 1960 lunch counter sit-in “The Man Behind the Counter” screens in Chapel Hill, NC.