By sitting down to lunch at a North Carolina department store, the brave men inspired many others to take part in nonviolent ...

The South Carolina Department of Education faces a civil rights lawsuit challenging its restrictions on how race and sex are ...

The death of Ruth Ann Butler sent shockwaves through the Upstate as political figures McMaster and White offer condolences to ...

The Friendship Nine changed the civil rights movement in 1961 by choosing prison rather than paying a fine for a sit-in at a ...

As Black Americans stand in the face of what might be a Civil Rights Movement 2.0, we celebrate our contemporary civil rights ...

When he and other Black protesters were arrested at a whites-only lunch counter in 1961, they tried a new strategy — ‘Jail No ...

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (WCIV) — A historical monument commemorating the last school for Native Americans in South Carolina prior to ...

University of South Carolina turned him away from its law school, Jacob Joseph Martin was honored at USC as a civil rights trailblazer.

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 ...

A statue of the four freshmen who led the sit-in at the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina ... success for the civil rights movement.

The State Superintendent of Education Ellen Weaver and two Midlands school districts are at the forefront of a Civil Rights ...