The February 1960 sit-in demonstration injected a new level of activism into the civil rights movement, which until then had largely been confined to fighting for equal rights in the courts.

Civil rights battles, told by the people who lived them. Activists retrace how they challenged white supremacy in key civil rights protests, sharing personal stories on the Seven Days of 1961 podcast.

It was Feb. 1, 1960, when four black students sat down at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and ordered coffee. As TIME reported, “the white patrons eyed them warily, and the ...

The "sixties" were born on Feb. 1, 1960, 50 years ago this week, when four African-American college students staged the first sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. . The sit-ins ...

Say “civil rights sit-in,” and the mind automatically flashes to the famous peaceful protests that took place in 1960 at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. But many other ...

The group helped organize sit-ins and civil rights marches. Cordy Tindell "CT" Vivian talks to an officer during one of the Freedom Rides from Montgomery, Alabama, to Jackson, Mississippi in 1961 ...

The “Greensboro Four”, a group of civil rights-era activists, are being remembered on the 60th anniversary of their iconic stand against segregation in the US. Inspired by Martin Luther King ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Franklin McCain, who helped spark a movement of nonviolent sit-in protests across the South by occupying a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, has died, his son ...

The start of the broader student civil rights movement is generally set in 1955. Gibson, a tenacious scholar, has unearthed evidence that Morgan State entered racial politics several years earlier .

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.

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 ...

By the 1963 sit-in, Glen and I were movement veterans. Two years earlier, we participated in a “wade-in” at an unofficially segregated South Side beach. I thought every family did those things.