Two public events — a prayer vigil and an arts performance — are planned this month to commemorate the anniversary of the historic Feb. 11, 1960, sit-in at the old Woolworth in downtown. The February ...

Sixty-four years ago, four college students in Greensboro sat down and made history. On February 1, 1960, four Black freshmen ...

Joseph McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T University students that staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in 1960. The protests by the four students inspired other demonstrations in the ...

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 lunch counters at Woolworth's department stores hold a significant place in American history. Though they first emerged around 1923 in New Albany, Indiana, Woolworth luncheonettes are perhaps most ...