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 ...

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.

HIGH POINT — Two events on Tuesday will honor local high school students who organized a sit-in 65 years ago during the Civil Rights Movement to end legalized segregation in public accommodations. The ...

Four young black men -- the Greensboro Four -- held a peaceful sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, and the world noticed This is part of our series of places where Black History happened In January ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nate Burleson is a co-host of "CBS Mornings." He is also an Emmy Award-winning studio analyst for CBS Sports' NFL pre-game, halftime and post-game show, "The NFL Today," and is the host of Nickelodeon ...

CHARLESTON — Six people, including two Charleston city councilmembers, were arrested in the United Building on Virginia Street East on Wednesday afternoon, shortly after beginning a sit-in protest ...