JACKSON, Miss. (AP) – Mississippi on Tuesday unveiled a historical marker commemorating the sit-in exactly 50 years earlier at a whites-only lunch counter in downtown Jackson, a pivotal event in ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Franklin McCain, who helped spark a movement of nonviolent sit-in protests across the South by occupying a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, has died, his son said ...

In a significant moment for civil rights history, Simon Bouie and six other activists had their arrest records expunged over 60 years after they participated in a pivotal sit-in at a Columbia, South ...

How a simple act of grass-roots disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement and changed the social landscape of the American South On Feb. 1, 1960, at around 4:30 p.m., four black students from ...

It’s totally Tuesday Oklahoma! Some of the topics on today’s show include the nation’s first civil rights sit-in site is now memorialized forever in downtown Oklahoma City! Rabies cases are on the ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — A new memorial located in downtown Oklahoma City honors the nation's first civil rights sit-in and civil rights leader Clara Luper. Last month, a new statue honoring Clara Luper was ...

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the ...

Criminal records of seven North Carolina civil rights activists have been expunged after six decades following a sit-in that led to their arrests. The young men staged the demonstration at the ...

IN JANUARY 1955. MORGAN STUDENTS, ALONG WITH MEMBERS OF THE CONGRESS OF RACIAL EQUALITY, WERE WAITING AT LEXINGTON AND HOWARD FOR A BUS. IT WAS BITTERLY COLD OUT. THEY ENTERED READS SEEKING WARMTH.

Simon Bouie told his mother and grandmother he wasn’t going to get in trouble back in 1960. Then the Black Benedict College student sat at a whites-only lunch counter in South Carolina and got himself ...

In 1960, a presidential election year, the race was between John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and civil rights leaders were dismayed by how little attention the candidates were giving to the unrest ...

The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...