What Trump-era protesters can learn from the lunch counter sit-ins of 1960 The sit-ins were spectacularly effective. It’s worth considering why this movement worked and how to replicate its success.

Other sit-ins had occurred, in Durham, in 1957; in Oklahoma City and Wichita City, Kan., in 1958; and in several northeastern cities even before that. But they didn't catch fire the way the one in ...

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These sit-ins and others across the nation led to Congress's passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which now protects all minorities against the discrimination the Pine Bluff students endured.

The International Civil Rights Center & Museum will present Mayor Cyril Jefferson with its 2025 Keeper of the Flame Award during the organization’s annual Civil Rights Gala on Saturday. The award is ...

Sit-ins at segregated lunch counters attracted national attention in the spring of 1960 following a sit-in by college students in ... News of the protest inspired similar sit-ins elsewhere.

Chicago high school students hold sit-in to support pro-Palestinian demonstrations 02:26. CHICAGO (CBS) – As protests calling for a cease-fire in Gaza have popped up on college campuses across ...

One sign hanging over a lunch counter reads: "We reserve the right to serve the public as we see fit." Newspaper articles from the 1960s show sit-ins were becoming more prominent across the state ...

That day—February 1, 1960—helped to push the sit in movement, but what you might not know is Bennett College students also had a hand in making change. RELATED: Greensboro Sit-Ins: Remembering ...

Learn more about Arkansas student sit-ins at the Pine Bluff Woolworth's lunch counter in 1963. At the July 2017 St. Louis ROADSHOW, a guest brought in a small collection of typewritten documents ...