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 ...
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Reviving Sit-Ins: Past and Future Perspectives
In a poignant statement, members of the SNCC Legacy Project (SLP) expressed alarm at the current state of affairs, noting ...
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Civil rights pioneer Joseph McNeil reflects on Greensboro sit-in 65 years later
Joseph McNeil and the Greensboro Four staged a sit-in at a Whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in 1960, a protest that ...
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Orange County hosts documentary screening on overlooked figure in Greensboro Sit-Ins
On Friday, the Orange County Depa rtment on Aging hosted a documentary screening at the Seymour Center in honor of Black ...
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Restaging the Greensboro Counter Sit-in
Learn how to stage a sit-in right next to the Greensboro lunch counter, the location of one of the civil rights movement's most famous protests (Video by: Katy June-Friesen). Read more at http ...
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65 years ago, sit-ins were born. Has their time come again?
This Black History Month, our commentator interviews a civil rights leader about his past with the sit-in movement and what ...
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Honoring Black History: The Paine College Steering Committee
AUGUSTA, Ga (WJBF)- in the early 1960’s civil rights activists worked hard to end segregation. For a short time here in ...
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Tampa’s Path to Equality Part 3: 'Election of the Century'
Tampa's 48th mayor, Julian B. Lane, played a role in the Civil Rights Movement as one of the first southern mayors to support ...