OKLAHOMA CITY (KSWO) - On this day in Oklahoma history, an iconic sit-in featuring more than 70 people took place in 1961, at ...
The right to be served hasn't always been a right for all Americans. Sixty-four years ago, a teacher and 70 others protested ...
A USF professor's play depicting Tampa's historic lunch counter sit-in from the Civil Rights Movement has been revived and ...
Clarence Henderson told Brevard Academy students last week America is “the greatest country in the world,” but “you have to ...
William Tyson Sr. started working at Woolworth only a few months after the sit-ins started in February. “I was determined I was gonna make it because I wanted to go to college, and this was how ...
Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the Civil Rights Movement met again Friday for the first time since the ...
“When the Righteous Triumph” debuted at Stageworks Theatre in 2023. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Davis was in the audience. Davis, ...
Leroy Long was with his mother, Lillie Mae, who was tired from a long day of walking, when they tried to sit at the Woolworth lunch counter in the 1950s. They were told they weren’t allowed to sit ...
Another Wichita Woolworth store, which also had a lunch counter, lasted at the Ken-Mar Shopping Center at 13th and Oliver until 1993. Other Woolworth stores also had operated in Eastgate Plaza at ...
Students at the Penn-Griffin School of Arts paid tribute to the trailblazing students who propelled the civil rights movement ...
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