The Greensboro Woolworth's was finally integrated on July 25, following a reported $200,000 in lost business. Mr. McNeil, who described the sit-ins as a campaign for "human dignity," continued to ...

5.40. NOW, THE TRIAD IS HOME TO A NEW NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK, THE F.W. WOOLWORTH BUILDING IN GREENSBORO GOT THE DESIGNATION FOR ITS CONNECTION TO THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. OUR ERIN BURNETT JOINS ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. – Greensboro, North Carolina marked the 65th anniversary of the sit-ins at a Woolworth lunch counter that sparked a national civil rights movement. On February 1, 1960, four North ...

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 ...

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 ...