Even after nearly 50 years, the names bear repeating: Franklin McCain, David Richmond, Ezell Blair and Joseph McNeil.They were freshmen at North Carolina A ...

The highlight of the plaza will be a $3.6 million bronze monument commemorating the Aug. 19, 1958, sit-in at the Katz lunch ...

Lunch counter sculpture to honor Civil Rights Activist Clara Luper in the heart of downtown. Story by Mecca Thompson/KFOR ... which was one of the first lunch counter sit-ins in America.

One of the first lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement took place in Oklahoma City in 1958. This weekend, the city remembers the protest and its organizer, Clara Luper.

So began the civil rights “jail, ... They were knocked off lunch counter stools by white police officers and dragged out of McCrory’s Variety Store in Rock Hill on Jan. 31, 1961.

Never was the complex relationship between food and civil rights more evident than during the 1960 lunch counter sit-ins. Students from North Carolina to Tennessee sat stoically in protest against ...

Helena Hicks, a civil rights advocate who led a 1950s protest to desegregate the old Read’s drug store lunch counter, died of pneumonia complicated by Lewy body dementia Thursday at the William ...

An act of student disobedience that sparked the American civil-rights movement continues to inspire students today -- including those at Eastside College Preparatory school in East Palo Alto. A ...

Lunch counter sculpture to honor Civil Rights Activist Clara Luper in the heart of downtown by: Mecca Thompson/KFOR. Posted: Feb 27, 2025 / 09:14 PM CST. Updated: Feb 27, 2025 / 09:49 PM CST.