Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was Aug. 19, 1958, and segregation was common in Oklahoma City, as it was across the South. High school history teacher Clara ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — Sixty-seven years after a Black teacher and her group of Black students dared to challenge Jim Crow by sitting down at a Whites-Only lunch counter, Oklahoma City is finally honoring ...

They were four friends, all freshmen at a historically Black college in Greensboro, North Carolina. And when they sat down at a segregated lunch counter on Feb. 1, 1960, they had no idea whether ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No Bail’ — and energized a movement. By Trip Gabriel The sit-in movement that ...

One of the members of the Greensboro A&T Four sit-in movement, which sparked the Civil Rights movement, has died. Retired Maj. Gen. Joseph McNeil, 83, has passed away. He was a pioneering figure in ...

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 ...

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 ...

McNeil was one of four North Carolina A&T State University who sat down at the local "whites only" counter in 1960. AP Photo/Lynn Hey, File GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North ...