Sixty-four years ago, four college students in Greensboro sat down and made history. On February 1, 1960, four Black freshmen ...
The Greensboro Woolworth's was finally integrated on July 25, following a reported $200,000 in lost business. Mr. McNeil, who described the sit-ins as a campaign for "human dignity," continued to ...
St. Brigit’s vision, combined with the resolute bravery of the disinherited, charts the path for followers of The Way.
As Black History Month unfolds, this week reminds us that progress has never been accidental. It has always been pushed ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Vice President Kamala Harris took a detour while visiting North Carolina on Monday to sit at the same lunch counter where four Black college students known as the Greensboro ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro, North Carolina marked the 65th anniversary of the sit-ins at a Woolworth lunch counter that sparked a national civil rights movement. On February 1, 1960, four North ...
Feb. 1 marks the 66th anniversary of the downtown Greensboro sit-ins, which spread and helped to get rid of Jim Crow laws ...
In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, defiant in their sharp attire, staring back at the camera with the ...
They were four friends, all freshmen at a historically Black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. And when they sat down at a segregated lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960, they had no idea whether ...