5.40. NOW, THE TRIAD IS HOME TO A NEW NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, THE F.W. WOOLWORTH BUILDING IN GREENSBORO GOT THE DESIGNATION FOR ITS CONNECTION TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. OUR ERIN BURNETT JOINS ...

The Woolworth's lunch counter was once a nucleus of community in this California city. Now, new owners hope a revamp of the ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Right now, a report is out claiming that a portion of the historic F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from the Greensboro sit-ins would be removed from the Smithsonian's National Museum ...

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 ...

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 ...

Langston University was deteriorating. Dormitories were falling into such disrepair that students were moving out, and that was only one example of the university's problems. Something needed to be ...

In the summer of 1958, a small group of Black students led by teacher Clara Luper walked into Katz Drug Store in downtown Oklahoma City and quietly took their seats at the lunch counter. Their request ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sixty-four years ago today, more than 70 people took to the Anna Maude Cafeteria in Oklahoma City to protest segregation and Jim Crow laws. The protest was led by history teacher and ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- In 1977, over 100 disabled activists occupied a federal building in San Francisco for nearly a month, demanding their civil rights be recognized. Today, that same spirit of resistance ...