Charles Barr, left, and Simon Bouie, right, wait for a hearing to start where their records were cleared after they were arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-white South Carolina lunch counter on ...
The civil-rights movement succeeded because federal agents and protesters alike showed restraint. Officials in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Washington could learn a few lessons from the civil-rights ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A civil rights marker honoring the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in was unveiled Thursday in Statesville. The Statesville ...
The Rev. James M. Lawson, a United Methodist minister who became a principal tactician of nonviolent protest during the civil rights movement, leading sit-ins, marches and Freedom Rides that withstood ...
A storied Cocoa house that hosted MLK, civil rights leaders to be rededicated in honor of late Pastor W.O. Wells ...
A powerful photography exhibit documenting a pivotal decade in the civil rights movement is opening at the Branigan Cultural Center. "I AM A MAN: Photographs of the Civil Rights Movement, 1960–1970," ...
The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...
How a simple act of grass-roots disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement and changed the social landscape of the American South On Feb. 1, 1960, at around 4:30 p.m., four black students from ...
A judge in South Carolina has erased the records of seven Black men arrested in 1960 for sitting at an all-white lunch counter. About 150 people packed the courtroom for the ceremony Friday. Two of ...