During the Civil Rights Movement, restaurants were vital for protesters and organizers to gather. Here are some of the most ...

Where I lived, in Atlanta in 1962, the landlady rented her extra bedrooms to college students and working young ladies. Dorothy Cotton lived on the first floor. [Cotton is known as a pillar of the ...

Local Civil rights groups protest, outside the Naval Academy’s Gate One, an executive order by President Donald Trump that removed 381 books from the academy. Pastor Stephen Tillett, a retired ...

Image taken during lunch counter sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth department store in Tampa in 1960 (photo courtesy: USF Tampa Library/City of Tampa Communications) Listen: Sixty-five years ago, a group ...

Did you know Nashville was the first major city to officially desegregate public lunch counters? The 1960 Nashville sit-ins marked a defining moment in the Civil Rights Movement, as determined and ...

On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a peaceful protest at the segregated Woolworth Lunch Counter.

Word of the protests had spread. When the Greensboro Four returned to the lunch counter the next day, they were joined by 20 more students from N.C.

Back then, Black people would sometimes sit at an all-white lunch counter and refuse to leave. They were often arrested and then refused to pay bail. Jails became crowded. They were put on chain ...

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn't going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got ...

Charles Barr, left, and Simon Bouie, right, wait for a hearing to start where their records were cleared after they were arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-White South Carolina lunch counter ...

Back then, Black people would sometimes sit at an all-white lunch counter and refuse to leave. They were often arrested and then refused to pay bail. Jails became crowded. They were put on chain ...