One popular strategy was the sit-in. In the South, drug stores had segregated lunch counters, one for Whites and one for Blacks. It was illegal for a Black person to sit at the White lunch counter.

In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, defiant in their sharp attire, staring back at the camera with the ...

It’s about the South — about segregated buses and lunch counters, police dogs and fire hoses, courageous struggle and long ...

In five weeks, Negro “sit-in” demonstrations at segregated lunch counters had raced from North Carolina to South Carolina to Virginia to Florida to Tennessee and into Deep South Alabama.

More than 300 people took part on the fourth day. The sit-in protesters also sat in at another segregated lunch counter at another Greensboro store. Just a week after the Greensboro sit-in had begun, ...

One popular strategy was the sit-in. In the South, drug stores had segregated lunch counters, one for Whites and one for Blacks. It was illegal for a Black person to sit at the White lunch counter.