In 1960 four Black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, launched a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter to protest segregation. The sit-ins spread to more than a hundred cities, and ...

For much of his life, Charles Bess drew little attention for his role in the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960. He was only 22 then, not much older than the protesters themselves.

In 1997, Sit-In Movement Inc. recognized Moebes as an "unsung hero" who documented the lunch counter sit-ins. "These pictures have been seen across the world," Dr. George Simkins, ...

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In 1961, for example, nearly 60% of Americans said that lunch counter sit-ins and Freedom Riders were hurting the integrationist cause, according to Gallup.

Both the Greensboro lunch counter and stools where college students sat in protest during the Civil Rights Movement are and continue to be on display. A stool from the sit-ins remains on view at the ...

I couldn’t help but think about the parallels to the Greensboro sit-ins at a Woolworth’s lunch counter that began five years earlier. I asked Piepenburg and Birdsall: ...

According to a recent analysis by RentCafe, Nashville's downtown residential area added nearly 8,900 apartment units since 2020, ranking Nashville eighth out of the 50 largest U.S. cities for ...

Tournament alternate Anthony Ivy (15-7 MMA), who will face off against Magomed Umalatov (17-1 MMA,) the latter of whom was eliminated from the tournament proper at the April 1 weigh-ins, came in ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Authorities have arrested and charged a man who allegedly brandished a handgun during the ‘No Kings’ protest in Nashville.