When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

Redding marches, prays and rings the bell to celebrate Martin Luther King Day and the civil rights leader's message of unity ...

We are approaching the 65th anniversary of a historic Civil Rights Movement event here in the Triad, known as the Greensboro Sit-Ins.On Feb. 1, 1960, four North Carolina Agricultural and Technical ...

His name has gained wider recognition in more recent decades, but civil rights activist and organizer Bayard Rustin has long ...

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 ...

While the movement achieved critical victories in securing legal rights and breaking down systemic injustice, it fell short ...

Ruth Ann Butler died on Jan. 15 at age 81. She was a historian, part of the Civil Rights Movement in Greenville and founder ...

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 ...

"Don't sit around waiting for others to do it. You're never too young or too old to get involved in the movement," said ...