In July 1958, young Blacks held sit-ins for weeks at the Dockum Drug Store in Wichita, Kansas. A month later more drug store sit-ins were held in Oklahoma City.

Newspaper articles from the 1960s show sit-ins were becoming more prominent across the ... Raleigh's then-mayor W. G. Enloe released a statement amid many of the sit-ins happening in the 1960s, ...

By the end of March, the sit-ins had spread to 13 states, and, by the end of that summer, many places had begun to change their segregation policies. The Greensboro Woolworth’s desegregated its ...

The seven men arrested at sit-ins in mid-March, 1960, had already spent the month peacefully protesting Jim Crow laws that allowed segregation in schools, businesses and other public places; bans ...

NEWS. Celebrating change spurred by sit-in, 55 years later. ... Allen, 68, was 14 years old during her first protest, and was part of the third group to stage sit-ins in Woolworth's, ...

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.

Former Woolworth employees reunite after 60 years, reflecting on friendship, the 1960 sit-ins, and the lunch counter’s lasting legacy in Civil Rights history.

The seven men arrested at sit-ins in mid-March, 1960, had already spent the month peacefully protesting Jim Crow laws that allowed segregation in schools, businesses and other public places; bans ...