Sixty-four years ago, four college students in Greensboro sat down and made history. On February 1, 1960, four Black freshmen ...

Four young black men -- the Greensboro Four -- held a peaceful sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, and the world noticed ...

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 ...

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

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

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sixty-seven years after a Black teacher and her group of Black students dared to challenge Jim Crow by sitting down at a Whites-Only lunch counter, Oklahoma City is finally honoring ...

Greensboro, NC – It was not the first, but it is the one people remember. When four African American teenagers sat down to request service at Woolworth’s in downtown Greensboro over 40 years ago the ...

A sculpture that depicts the start of the historic Oklahoma City sit-in movement was lifted by crane and installed at a downtown site on Monday. The 8,000 pound bronze sculpture traveled from ...

Marilyn Luper Hildreth recalls the struggle of desegregating public spaces in 1950s Oklahoma City, beginning with sit-in protests at Katz Drug Store. In Oklahoma City in the late 1950s, schools had ...

In a significant moment for civil rights history, Simon Bouie and six other activists had their arrest records expunged over 60 years after they participated in a pivotal sit-in at a Columbia, South ...