The hope and tenacity of young people who made up the core of the Oklahoma City sit-ins are reflected in the theme of this year's commemoration of the local desegregation movement. Freedom Fiesta Week ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was Aug. 19, 1958, and segregation was common in Oklahoma City, as it was across the South. High school history teacher Clara ...

A sculpture that depicts the start of the historic Oklahoma City sit-in movement was lifted by crane and installed at a downtown site on Monday. The 8,000 pound bronze sculpture traveled from ...

PASSED AWAY THIS MORNING. LET’S BRING IN OUR JOSHUA DAVIS. HE IS AT THE INTERNATIONAL CIVIL RIGHTS CENTER AND MUSEUM FROM THE VERY SAME COUNTER THAT MCNEIL, KAZAN AND MCCAIN, AS WELL AS DAVID RICHMOND ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The hope and tenacity of young people who made up the core of the Oklahoma City sit-ins are reflected in the theme of this year's ...