It was Aug. 19, 1958, and segregation was common in Oklahoma City, as it was across the South. High school history teacher Clara Luper was 35 and a mother of three. Active in the Civil Rights Movement ...

How a simple act of grass-roots disobedience galvanized the civil rights movement and changed the social landscape of the American South On Feb. 1, 1960, at around 4:30 p.m., four black students from ...

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 ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...

The Clara Luper National Sit-in Plaza was unveiled late last year. But due to health reasons, this was Calvin Luper's first ...

Calvin Luper, a youth who took part in the Katz Drugstore sit-in, visited the Clara Luper National Sit-In Plaza for first ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) – Franklin McCain, who helped spark a movement of nonviolent sit-in protests across the South by occupying a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in 1960, has died, his son said ...