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 ...

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

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 ...

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

The Civil Rights Movement was active from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s. African Americans used nonviolent protest in the form of sit-ins and marches in order to protest segregation laws ...

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

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 ...

The Rev. Avery Alexander marched with Martin Luther King Jr., led bus and business boycotts as well as lunch-counter sit-ins ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...