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'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...
Black History Month: Lunch Counter Protests
Raleigh News and Observer via AOL· 1 year agoThroughout Black History Month, we are spotlighting key figures and moments. This photo shows Civil Rights protesters studying at the lunch counter at...
The Rev. James Lawson Jr. has died at 95, civil rights leader's family says
Associated Press via Yahoo News· 19 minutes agoThe Rev. James Lawson Jr., an apostle of nonviolent protest who schooled activists to withstand...
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...
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...
Nashville man who broke civil rights movement plaque pleads guilty, faces sentencing
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 2 years agoTondrique Fitzgerald is set to be sentenced on Dec. 13 for vandalism and rioting charges after...
Just 60 years ago, Knoxville movie theaters were still segregated | Opinion
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 1 year agoSixty years ago downtown Knoxville was abuzz with people picketing the three Gay Street movie...
In college protests, schools often can do little to actually meet protesters' demands
The Des Moines Register via Yahoo News· 1 month agoCampus protests are as old as universities themselves. The first university at Bologna, Italy, in...
Mack Workman, SC Friendship Nine civil rights legend, dies. ‘They changed the world.’
Rock Hill Herald via Yahoo News· 3 months agoMack Workman, an African-American teen in Rock Hill in the 1960s who went to jail protesting civil...
