To mark Martin Luther King Jr's birthday, "Sunday Morning" talks with some of those who were engaged from the very beginning ...

Set in 1960s Florida, this powerful documentary uncovers a hidden chapter of the Civil Rights Movement. A courageous group of Black high school students organized peaceful sit-ins at a downtown lunch ...

The new movement: the student sit-ins in 1960 / Iwan Morgan -- Another side of the sit-ins: nonviolent direct action, the courts, and the constitution / John Kirk -- "complicated hospitality": the ...

Evanston Children's Choir performs the Zulu folk song Aya Ngena. The City of Evanston and Fleetwood-Jourdain Theatre ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On February 1, 1960, four Black men walked into the Woolworth’s general store in Greensboro, North Carolina, and changed the world ...

ST. LOUIS — When you think of sit-in demonstrations to desegregate public spaces, your mind might immediately go to Greensboro, North Carolina, where students staged famous protests at the Woolworth's ...

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 ...

How St. Louis' sit-ins set up the framework for civil rights movements to come St. Louis' sit-in movement started with a Black woman named Pearl Maddox and women of the Citizens Civil Rights Committee ...

The hope and tenacity of young people who made up the core of the Oklahoma City sit-ins are reflected in the theme of this year's commemoration of the local desegregation movement. Freedom Fiesta Week ...