Edna Griffin led one of the nation's first successful civil rights cases in 1948, challenging segregation at Katz Drug Store ...
In the early 1960’s civil rights activists worked hard to end segregation. For a short time here in Augusta, a little known ...
FOX 13 Chief Political Investigator Craig Patrick explores the racial power structure that started to shift in January 1955, ...
On February 29th, they gathered at historic St. Paul A.M.E. Church, walked to Woolworth on Franklin Street downtown, and sat ...
Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated many local businesses but also demonstrated the power of interracial cooperation and non-violent protest.
Joyce Cusack, now 82, participated in a 1960 lunch counter sit-in in DeLand, Florida, at the age of 17 to protest segregation ...
A former state representative participated in a DeLand lunch counter sit-in to protest against segregation 65 years ago this ...
Charles Bess was a busboy when four Black college students defied the segregated lunch counter. This documentary shares his ...
Diane Nash led the rides from Birmingham to Jackson, Mississippi, in 1961. She organized the 1963 Birmingham Desegregation ...
Some peaceful, others resulting in arrests and or violence. In DeLand, the sit-ins were largely peaceful, though demands to be served while seated were not met. Cusack said the counters were ...
One of the first narratives those professors preserved was how Tampa high school students took part in the 1960 non-violent sit-ins that desegregated the city’s lunch counters. USF has continued to ...