CHARLOTTE — For many Black Americans, the sit-in movement helped usher in a new sense of pride during the Civil Rights Movement. On April, 1 1960, 24 students from Burke High School in Charleston ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Today marks one of the most significant days in Greensboro’s history. In 1960, four North Carolina A&T students refused to give up their seats at a lunch counter, sparking a ...

Sixty-seven years after a group of kids started a sit-in protest for equal rights in Oklahoma City, their impact on the civil rights movement is being recognized. In 1958, teacher Clara Luper and 13 ...

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 ...

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 ...