The four North Carolina A&T College students didn’t know they had started a movement on Feb. 1, 1960, when they sat at a lunch counter in Greensboro ... of coffee and $1.50 for barbecue.

In this May 28, 1963, photo, a group of men pour sugar, ketchup and mustard over the heads of demonstrators at a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Miss. (Fred Blackwell/AP ...

2010-02-20T13:33:32-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/881/291970-m.jpgA town hall meeting commemorated the 50th anniversary of the desegregation sit-in at a ...

Fifty years ago, on Feb. 1, four black college students sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. The "Greensboro Four," along with friends and supporters ...

Pearlena Lewis and Memphis Norman--a white man and three black students--at the "Whites Only" counter in Woolworth's store lunch counter. Nobody would serve them. Behind them was a growing crowd ...

So 50 years ago today, Lombard, who is black, and Goldfinch, who is white, walked into the McCrory's five-and-dime on Canal Street and sat at the whites-only lunch counter with Cecil Carter Jr ...

Mississippi will inaugurate a marker Tuesday recalling a civil rights protest 50 years ago when a white mob attacked a racially mixed group seated at a whites-only lunch counter. On May 28 ...

In February, the only remaining Woolworth’s lunch counter in America ... supply kits that are up in the stockroom from the ’50s and ’60s. Yeah, there’s some cool things.” ...

2020-06-28T08:57:58-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/bc8/20200628092807003_hd.jpgIn 1960, four African American students sat down at a segregated Woolworth’s ...

On Thursday, the news outlet BlackPressUSA published a report that an exhibit from a historic moment in the Civil Rights Movement, Greensboro’s F.W. Woolworth Company lunch counter, fell victim ...