/tags/greensboro-four Greensboro Four en-US Copyright Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:06:22 GMT /wunc-youth-reporting-institute/2022-06-03/amplify-black-voices-greensboro-history-creatively-told-theater-arts-culture On February 1, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students went to the F.W. Woolworth in downtown Greensboro to protest segregation at the all-white lunch counter. ¼ª²ÊÍøÍøÕ¾ Intern Jaisha Smalls highlights the retelling of that story within Greensboro’s Amplify Black Voices Theater Festival. Fri, 03 Jun 2022 17:06:22 GMT /wunc-youth-reporting-institute/2022-06-03/amplify-black-voices-greensboro-history-creatively-told-theater-arts-culture Jaisha Smalls, Kamaya Truitt /race-demographics/2020-02-18/the-catalyst-that-created-a-movement-60-years-after-the-greensboro-sit-ins On Feb. 1, 1960, the fight for civil rights changed forever when four freshmen students from North Carolina A&T State University refused to leave a lunch… Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:15:52 GMT /race-demographics/2020-02-18/the-catalyst-that-created-a-movement-60-years-after-the-greensboro-sit-ins Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2020-02-18/the-catalyst-that-created-a-movement-60-years-after-the-greensboro-sit-ins On Feb. 1, 1960, the fight for civil rights changed forever when four freshmen students from North Carolina A&T State University refused to leave a lunch… Tue, 18 Feb 2020 16:15:52 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-02-18/the-catalyst-that-created-a-movement-60-years-after-the-greensboro-sit-ins Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /race-demographics/2019-02-27/chapel-hill-nine-to-get-marker-on-franklin-street You may have heard of the four college students in Greensboro, North Carolina who sat at a segregated lunch counter at a Woolworth's and helped spark the… Thu, 28 Feb 2019 03:24:15 GMT /race-demographics/2019-02-27/chapel-hill-nine-to-get-marker-on-franklin-street Leoneda Inge /news/2018-02-02/two-of-the-greensboro-four-honored-on-sit-in-anniversary Fifty-eight years ago, four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University refused to leave their seats at a lunch counter in a… Fri, 02 Feb 2018 14:22:56 GMT /news/2018-02-02/two-of-the-greensboro-four-honored-on-sit-in-anniversary Naomi P. Brown /politics/2014-01-21/triad-update Franklin McCain, civil rights activist and one of the Greensboro Four, died this month. His legacy is commemorated at the International Civil Rights… Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:08:09 GMT /politics/2014-01-21/triad-update Nicole Campbell, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2014-01-21/triad-update Franklin McCain, civil rights activist and one of the Greensboro Four, died this month. His legacy is commemorated at the International Civil Rights… Tue, 21 Jan 2014 15:08:09 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2014-01-21/triad-update Nicole Campbell, Frank Stasio /arts-culture/2014-01-16/one-of-the-greensboro-four-remembered-on-a-t-campus Civil rights pioneer Franklin McCain will be laid to rest Friday, following an afternoon funeral in Charlotte. Hundreds of people turned out to North… Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:08:19 GMT /arts-culture/2014-01-16/one-of-the-greensboro-four-remembered-on-a-t-campus Jeff Tiberii /arts-culture/2014-01-10/three-of-the-greensboro-four-in-their-own-words Background to this first person audio story from reporter Jessica Jones:Back in 2010, I was thrilled to cover the opening of Greensboro's International… Fri, 10 Jan 2014 19:40:47 GMT /arts-culture/2014-01-10/three-of-the-greensboro-four-in-their-own-words Jessica Jones /politics/2014-01-10/franklin-mccain-dies-helped-start-sit-in-movement-at-greensboro-lunch-counter A Civil Rights pioneer has died. Franklin McCain was one of four teenagers who sat down at an all-white lunch counter in Greensboro on February 1, 1960."I… Fri, 10 Jan 2014 15:17:54 GMT /politics/2014-01-10/franklin-mccain-dies-helped-start-sit-in-movement-at-greensboro-lunch-counter Jeff Tiberii, Carol Jackson