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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...
'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...
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...
'The American mind is not all that small, and it welcomes all ideas.'
The Tennessean via Yahoo News· 8 hours agoRobert J. Booker, Knoxville’s most revered African American historian, an Austin High School...
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...
Joan Trumpauer Mulholland recalls 1963 sit-in protest
CBS News via Yahoo News· 2 years agoDespite the hardships she faced stemming from her commitment to social justice work throughout the...
What to know about Freedom Fiesta events that celebrate 65th anniversary of OKC sit-ins
The Oklahoman via Yahoo News· 9 months agoWhen Marilyn Luper Hildreth sat down at the lunch counter of the downtown Oklahoma City Katz Drug...
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...
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· 12 months agoSixty years ago downtown Knoxville was abuzz with people picketing the three Gay Street movie...