A Living Legacy: How Greensboro is Honoring the 65th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins
North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On ...
International Civil Rights Museum in Greensboro preserves history of Greensboro Four 65 years later
Remembrances are happening January 31 and February 1, marking the 65th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. The building ...
NC A&T Honors A Civil Rights Legacy: Celebrating the 65th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins
This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...
Almost 65 Years Later: Greensboro Sit-In site becomes National Historic Landmark
We are approaching the 65th anniversary of a historic Civil Rights Movement event here in the Triad, known as the Greensboro ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Restaging the Greensboro Counter Sit-in
Learn how to stage a sit-in right next to the Greensboro lunch counter, the location of one of the civil rights movement's most famous protests (Video by: Katy June-Friesen). Read more at http ...
Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
The Spokesman-Review7d
The Lunch Counter Protests: How four college students started a nationwide movement
More than 30,000 had been arrested. Here’s where notable sit-ins began in the South over the first few months of 1960: The old Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter has been preserved at the ...
Raleigh News & Observer29d
This NC site was crucial to the Civil Rights Movement. It was just named a historic landmark
The F.W. Woolworth Company Building in Greensboro was recently designated as a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service. The building was the site of historical sit-ins by the ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Restaging the Greensboro Counter Sit-in
Learn how to stage a sit-in right next to the Greensboro lunch counter, the location of one of the civil rights movement's most famous protests (Video by: Katy June-Friesen). Read more at http ...