So, how can we make sense of what comes next for the climate movement by looking back to the Civil Rights Movement?

An iconic North Carolina building that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement is now officially a historic landmark. The F.W. Woolworth Company Building in Greensboro was recently ...

The building was the site of historical sit-ins by the Greensboro Four, an effort during the Civil Rights Movement that sparked similar sit-ins around North Carolina and a national movement that ...

but the Greensboro sit-ins drew intense media coverage, serving to propel the civil rights movement onto the national stage. By Feb. 5, hundreds of students were joining in on the protest and the ...

As well as the bus boycott, King supported a number of different direct action protests during the civil rights movement, including: Sit-ins by students who were protesting against discrimination ...

South Carolina native Jesse Jackson became involved in sit-ins while in college and joined the SCLC in 1965. In 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. took the civil rights movement north with a campaign ...

A related movement, the white Citizens' Councils ... Students involved in nonviolent civil rights sit-ins formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960.

LANSING — Civil rights activist Dr. Bernard LaFayette Jr. will be the keynote speaker at the 40th Annual Day of Celebration ...

An image of Vencen Horsley on display at the site of the Nashville sit-ins, Woolworth’s on Fifth ... area sharing his experiences on the civil rights movement. I’ll link to some of the ...

Horsley participated in sit-ins and fought against discrimination during the Civil Rights Movement. "Not only was discrimination reality, but was also legal," Horsley told NewsChannel 5 in 2017.