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Former Woolworth employees reunite after 60 years, reflecting on friendship, the 1960 sit-ins, and the lunch counter’s lasting legacy in Civil Rights history.

In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen ... Charles Bess drew little attention for his role in the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960. He was only 22 then, not much older than the protesters ...

The right to be served hasn't always been a right for all Americans. Sixty-four years ago, a teacher and 70 others protested ...

In the coming months, the group continued sit-ins at three businesses in the heart of St. Louis: Stix, Baer & Fuller, Famous Barr and Scruggs-Vandervoort-Barney. For almost a year, the group sat ...

The monthly sit-ins have served, for 45 years, as a venue for appealing to public opinion on various causes, including opposition to nuclear tests and a call for legislation that would provide ...

"I also had a car and the days I couldn’t do the actual sit-ins; I would take students from Tennessee A&I down to the church, and when the demonstrations were over I would go back and pick them ...

Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated many local businesses but also demonstrated the power of interracial cooperation and non-violent protest.

Four students from NC A&T University, dubbed the Greensboro Four, were the face of the Greensboro Sit-Ins at Woolworth's store. But people often overlook the fifth person in the famous photo from ...

Charles Bess was famously the worker in this photo during the famous sit-in movement by the ... at Woolworth only a few months after the sit-ins started in February. “I was determined I was ...