LOUIS — When you think of sit-in demonstrations to desegregate public spaces, your mind might immediately go to Greensboro ... St. Louis was home to sit-ins aimed at desegregation as early ...

"It's just a joy to be back here and see this place," Bess said.Tyson began working at Woolworth during the summer of 1960, a few months after the sit-ins ... Center and Museum in Greensboro." ...

The collective voluntary move was inspired by a sit ... s in Greensboro, North Carolina, after being denied service, ...

the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s where sit-ins began; the National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee; and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthplace in ...

The late Augusta Yvonne Thomas graduated from Central High School in her hometown of Louisville. Growing up, she also lived ...

On Wednesday, Feb. 26, Greensboro’s International Civil Rights Center and Museum got a very special guest taking a ... to leave – thus setting off a chain reaction of protest sit-ins across the South.

Josh Stein criticized potential Medicaid cuts and discussed diversity initiatives following a tour of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro ... the 1960 sit-in movement ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Woolworth Lunch Counter holds an abundance of hallowed history, not just for Greensboro, but for all of Civil Rights. “Working the dish room was tough, it was tough work ...