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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]
Trump also called out King’s name when he referred to then-North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson as “Martin Luther King (Jr.) on steroids.” ... spewed at him and other civil rights activists ...
Benjamin Sylvester Ruffin (December 11, 1941 – December 7, 2006), also known as Ben Ruffin, was an African American civil rights activist, educator, and businessman in Durham, North Carolina. Growing up during the Civil Rights Movement era, Ruffin's life experience in Durham has provided him with a black consciousness that helped him analyze ...
Civilities and Civil Rights: Greensboro, North Carolina, and the Black Struggle for Freedom. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-502919-2. Hawkins, Karen. "Dudley High School/NC A&T University Disturbances, May 1969". Civil Rights Greensboro. University of North Carolina, Greensboro. Archived from the original on June 6, 2012
In 1983, Henry McCollum and Leon Brown were convicted or raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl in Red Springs North Carolina. After 31 years of maintaining their innocence in prison, the two ...
Republican delegates in North Carolina voted Saturday at their annual convention to censure Thom Tillis, the state's senior U.S. senator, for backing LGBTQ+ rights, immigration and gun violence ...
Additional image of Civil Rights protestors executing a sit-in at a Woolworth's in Durham, North Carolina on February 10th of 1960. Sit-ins were by far the most prominent in 1960, however, they were still a useful tactic in the civil rights movement in the years to come.
The Royal Ice Cream sit-in was a nonviolent protest in Durham, North Carolina, that led to a court case on the legality of segregated facilities.The demonstration took place on June 23, 1957 when a group of African American protesters, led by Reverend Douglas E. Moore, entered the Royal Ice Cream Parlor and sat in the section reserved for white patrons. [1]