Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los ...
OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The life and legacy of Clara Shepard Luper will be on full display in the heart of downtown. A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, ...
The Greensboro sit-ins were a pivotal moment for non-violent civil rights protests in the early 1960s. This movement spread throughout the country, operating on a simple concept: Young Black college ...
CHARLOTTE — For many Black Americans, the sit-in movement helped usher in a new sense of pride during the Civil Rights Movement. On April, 1 1960, 24 students from Burke High School in Charleston ...
DELAND — When Joyce Cusack was growing up in west Volusia County, Black and white babies were born in separate wings of Halifax Hospital, and skin color determined where people lived, went to school, ...
Today is the start of Black History Month and in Greensboro it is also the anniversary of a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle. Dozens of people gathered for a breakfast this morning to mark ...
The Rev. James Lawson in 2004 at the office of Clergy and Laity United for Economic Justice in Los Angeles. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times) James M. Lawson Jr., a Methodist minister who became the ...