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How the Greensboro Four Sat Down and Changed the World
Biography via Yahoo News· 1 year agoIn 1960, four Black students sat at a “whites only” lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The...
Looking back at the history-making Greensboro Woolworth sit-in
Newsy via AOL· 4 months ago"February One" sculpture, by James Barnhill, is a monument dedicated to the Greensboro Four from the...
'I was considered less than' Black 81-year-old remembers 1960 DeLand lunch counter sit-in
Daytona Beach News-Journal via Yahoo News· 4 months agoDELAND — When Joyce Cusack was growing up in west Volusia County, Black and white babies were born...
Helena Hicks, civil rights advocate who helped desegregate Read’s lunch counter, dies
Baltimore Sun via Yahoo News· 1 month agoHelena Hicks, a civil rights advocate who led a 1950s protest to desegregate the old Read’s drug...
North Carolina A&T Alumna Courtney Hall Opens The First Black-Owned Ultrasound Studio In Downtown...
AfroTech via Yahoo Finance· 4 months agoThe reported first Black-owned ultrasound studio in Downtown Greensboro, NC, is officially in...
JCSU alumni describe impact of their lunch counter sit-ins in Charlotte
WSOC via Yahoo News· 3 months agoFor many Black Americans, the sit-in movement helped usher in a new sense of pride during the Civil...
In pictures: A lookback at student protest movements in the US
CNN via Yahoo News· 1 month agoStudents have established encampments and occupied campus buildings to protest Israel’s war in Gaza,...
What to know about Freedom Fiesta events that celebrate 65th anniversary of OKC sit-ins
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 10 months agoWhen Marilyn Luper Hildreth sat down at the lunch counter of the downtown Oklahoma City Katz Drug...
New civil rights marker honors 1960 Shaw and St. Augustine’s student protest
Raleigh News and Observer via Yahoo News· 1 year agoRecognition, Swanola Debnam says, feels good after 63 years. On February 12, 1960, she was one of 41...
A photo of women snickering at trans lawmaker Zooey Zephyr in Montana looks a lot like the photos of...
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 1 year agoA group of women watch Rep. Zooey Zephyr while occupying a public bench. Zephyr had been working...