During the Civil Rights Movement, the Minute Men Commandos played a crucial role in protecting sit-in participants, ready to ...

The hope and tenacity of young people who made up the core of the Oklahoma City sit-ins are reflected in the theme of this year's commemoration of the local desegregation movement. Freedom Fiesta Week ...

The actions of the four freshmen remain a defining moment in Greensboro history.

The Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza was unveiled late last year. But due to health reasons, this was Calvin Luper's first ...

ST. LOUIS — When you think of sit-in demonstrations to desegregate public spaces, your mind might immediately go to Greensboro, North Carolina, where students staged famous protests at the Woolworth's ...

A historic lunch counter from Read's Drugstore that's on display at the Morgan State University Student Center demonstrates what would help spark the Civil Rights Movement across Baltimore. Morgan ...

In the 1960s, a wave of non-violent resistance surged across the United States as college students took a stand for civil rights, famously engaging in what they called “good trouble.” From arrests and ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. (WGHP) — Sixty-four years ago, four college students in Greensboro sat down and made history. On February 1, 1960, four Black freshmen from the Agricultural and Technical College of ...

The Woolworth’s on North Street was the only local five-and-ten store with a lunch counter in the Berkshires. But unlike its ...

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 ...

Calvin Luper, a youth who took part in the Katz Drugstore sit-in, visited the Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza for first ...