The Woolworth's lunch counter was once a nucleus of community in this California city. Now, new owners hope a revamp of the ...
Greensboro, NC, store's busboy offered note: “I am with you all the way.” Sixty-two years ago, four Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, ...
Participants in the historic 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins in Tampa were honored at a ceremony on Thursday. The nonviolent demonstrations, both in Tampa and elsewhere across the country, played ...
BlackPressUSA NEWSWIRE – In an update to the BlackPressUSA exclusive on the lunch counter exhibit at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the Smithsonian now says the display ...
Today is the start of Black History Month and in Greensboro it is also the anniversary of a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. Dozens of people gathered for a breakfast this morning to mark ...
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 ...
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-in protests across ...