Almost 65 Years Later: Greensboro Sit-In site becomes National Historic Landmark
We are approaching the 65th anniversary of a historic Civil Rights Movement event here in the Triad, known as the Greensboro ...
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February 1 marks the 64th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins, sparking a nationwide movement
Similar sit-ins had been organized as early as 1958, but the Greensboro sit-ins drew intense media coverage, serving to propel the civil rights movement onto the national stage. By Feb. 5 ...
Smithsonian Magazine2d
Restaging the Greensboro Counter Sit-in
Learn how to stage a sit-in right next to the Greensboro lunch counter, the location of one of the civil rights movement's most famous protests (Video by: Katy June-Friesen). Read more at http ...
Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...
The Spokesman-Review7d
The Lunch Counter Protests: How four college students started a nationwide movement
More than 30,000 had been arrested. Here’s where notable sit-ins began in the South over the first few months of 1960: The old Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter has been preserved at the ...
Raleigh News & Observer29d
This NC site was crucial to the Civil Rights Movement. It was just named a historic landmark
The F.W. Woolworth Company Building in Greensboro was recently designated as a National Historic Landmark by the National Park Service. The building was the site of historical sit-ins by the ...
Smithsonian Magazine1d
Restaging the Greensboro Counter Sit-in
Learn how to stage a sit-in right next to the Greensboro lunch counter, the location of one of the civil rights movement's most famous protests (Video by: Katy June-Friesen). Read more at http ...