Over 63 years ago this week, in the teeth of the civil rights movement in America, seven students from Southern University sat down at the Kress Department Store lunch counter in downtown Baton Rouge.
Tampa's Jim Crow-era lunch counter sit-ins are the subject of a new documentary streaming online now. Why it matters: The student-organized protests at F.W. Woolworth downtown laid the groundwork for ...
It is a plus to hear from baby boomers when a story brings back memories from their youthful days. Sometimes these memories are bittersweet. Following my Berkshire Eagle story on Pittsfield’s ...