A civil rights marker honoring the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in was unveiled Thursday in Statesville.

The Greensboro sit-ins were a pivotal moment for non-violent civil rights protests in the early 1960s. This movement spread ...

Holding protest sign is civil rights activist, Virginius B. Thornton. Civil Rights student leaders from all over the South at Atlanta University in May of 1960 to meet with Martin Luther King on ...

The Woolworth’s on North Street was the only local five-and-ten store with a lunch counter in the Berkshires. But unlike its ...

Four young black men -- the Greensboro Four -- held a peaceful sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, and the world noticed ...

*Despite earlier reports of its removal, the historic Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit remains proudly on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), also known ...

In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, defiant in their sharp attire, staring back at the camera with the ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...

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, Friday ...