Sentences with phrase «rights lunch counter»

(Remember the civil rights lunch counter sit - ins of the 1960s.)

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He was arrested while sitting at a whites - only lunch counter at a bus depot alongside civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy and William Sloane Coffin.

Always ahead of his time, Kunstler's lifelong commitment to civil rights began when he went to Mississippi to defend Freedom Riders being arrested for trying to integrate lunch counters and other public accommodations.

John Lewis, as a young man, reminded us that we had the courage to integrate lunch counters, to desegregate interstate buses, and to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to spark a national movement that would lead to the Voting Rights Act.

Readers will know after reading Rubin's book that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights group that grew out of the lunch - counter sit - ins in the early 1960s, organized Freedom Summer.

I sat there in the car with the gravel dust blowing across the parking lot and saw the place for what it was, not what it was right at that moment in the hot sunlight, but for what it had been maybe twelve or fifteen years before: a real general store with folks gathered around the lunch counter, a line of people at the soda fountain, little children ordering ice cream of just about every flavor you could think of, hard candy by the quarter pound, moon pies and crackerjack and other things I hadn't thought about tasting in years.

Inside, Dallas - based artist Gabriel Dawe had strung two spectral — and spectrum - crossing — thread sculptures between the columns of a space that had once been a department store lunch counter where 1960s civil rights workers staged sit - ins.

Rev. Moore was active in the Civil Rights Movement, organizing a student sit - in at Royal Ice Cream parlor in Durham, N.C., on June 23, 1957, prior to the more well - known Greensboro lunch counter protests in 1960.

Much like the civil rights activists who occupied lunch counters, and the suffragettes chaining themselves to Buckingham Palace, I for one believe that non-violent civil disobedience will be a crucial tool in injecting some sanity into the profoundly broken economic and political paradigm we currently operate in.

One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit - in movement began on February 1, 1960, when four African - American college students sat down at the whites - only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina.