"Generations after us will be able to say that's where history was made," said Guilford County Commissioners Chair Melvin ...
We are approaching the 65th anniversary of a historic Civil Rights Movement event here in the Triad, known as the Greensboro ...
This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...
"To be at the age when he did this, I cannot fathom how much he went through and how traumatizing it was," granddaughter ...
Saturday will mark 65 years since four Black college students (David Richmond, Frank Mccain, Ezell Blair Junior, who is now known as Jibreel Khazan, and Joseph Mcneil) ...
A SUPERMARKET giant is set to shutter one of its high street shops in just a few days. Tesco has confirmed it will be closing the site on January 27. The Chadwell Heath Tesco Express store in ...
who staged a sit-in at the F.W. Woolworth on North Franklin Street a year prior. More than 4,000 people attended. As for the sit-in, you can now find a historical marker at the site, which names ...
George Clinton Murphy had already built one chain of dime stores (which he sold to F.W. Woolworth Co.) when he opened the first of his G.C. Murphy Co. stores in 1906 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.
The students who refused to leave before the F.W. Woolworth’s would serve them a meal, was an act of defying Jim Crow laws that were enacted to maintain segregation in the South. Their actions ...
On Feb. 1, 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened in New York City for its first session. Only three of the six justices were ...