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In 1960 four Black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, launched a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter to protest segregation.

An 8-foot section of the Woolworth lunch counter that made civil rights history in Greensboro will remain a part of the Smithsonian Museum in the nation’s capital. The Smithsonian website makes ...

The sit-in movement began in Greensboro, North Carolina, by four students from all-Black North Carolina A&T College who refused to leave a segregated Woolworth lunch counter on Feb 1, 1960. The one at ...

This chain of protests was sparked by the historic Woolworth’s sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Inspired by similar actions in Greensboro, NC, the Nashville sit-ins aimed to challenge the practice of segregated dining in department stores and other businesses. Protesters sat at the “whites-only” ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Feb. 1, 2025, marked 65 years since four Black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro. Their protest for civil and human rights ...

Feb. 1, 2025, marked 65 years since four Black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro.

In December, the International Civil Rights Center and Museum leaders were notified by the National Park Service that the building had been designated a national historic landmark.

THE FORMER WOOLWORTH BUILDING IN GREENSBORO RECENTLY BECAME A HISTORIC NATIONAL LANDMARK. IT IS NOW HOME TO THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS MUSEUM.

5.40. NOW, THE TRIAD IS HOME TO A NEW NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, THE F.W. WOOLWORTH BUILDING IN GREENSBORO GOT THE DESIGNATION FOR ITS CONNECTION TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. OUR ERIN BURNETT ...