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Sit-ins, soldiers, a lost district: Des Moines' remarkable Black history
Edna Griffin led one of the nation's first successful civil rights cases in 1948, challenging segregation at Katz Drug Store ...
He worked at Woolworth during famous Greensboro sit-in. Meet ‘The Man Behind the Counter’
Charles Bess was a busboy when four Black college students defied the segregated lunch counter. This documentary shares his ...
65 years later, Greensboro sit-in pioneer Joseph McNeil reflects on historic civil rights protest
Joseph McNeil, one of the Greensboro Four, recalls the momentous sit-in that ignited a nationwide civil rights movement as he ...
Clara Luper resisted Oklahoma City segregation. What change will you make? | Opinion
The story of Clara Luper reminds us that ordinary people can take a stand and fight against injustice. Will you join in ...
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Tampa’s Path to Equality Part 4: The Sit-ins
FOX 13 Chief Political Investigator Craig Patrick explores the racial power structure that started to shift in January 1955, ...
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Thomas Gaither, Who Chose Jail After Civil Rights Sit-ins, Dies at 86
In Rock Hill, S.C., local businesses still refused to integrate, despite the sit-ins. The local news no longer covered them. Then, in 1961, a 22-year-old organizer, Thomas Gaither, introduced a ...
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Tampa's Path to Equality Part 7: Live on Stage
Tampa celebrates a breakthrough in civil rights when the city’s first wave of sit-ins took off on9, 1960. High school ...
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Remembering the Tampa lunch counter sit-ins | Column
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.
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Almost 65 Years Later: Greensboro Sit-In site becomes National Historic Landmark
ERIN. THAT’S RIGHT. JACKIE AND AUDREY THE F.W. WOOLWORTH BUILDING IS WHERE THE GREENSBORO SIT INS HAPPENED IN 1964. MEN HELD A PEACEFUL PROTEST AT THE LUNCH COUNTER, TAKING A STAND BY SITTING DOWN.
Tampa’s Path to Equality Part Four: The Sit-ins
FOX 13 Chief Political Investigator Craig Patrick explores the racial power structure that started to shift in January 1955, ...