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On February 1, four college students sat down to request lunch service at a North Carolina Woolworth’s and ignited a struggle Owen Edwards On February 1, 1960, four young African-American men, freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, entered the Greensboro Woolworth’s and sat down on stools that had, until that moment,Continue reading “Courage at the Greensboro Lunch Counter”

A newly available memoir reveals a tender, private side of the global celebrity Kayla Randall – Digital Editor, Museums Before she was a legend, Josephine Baker was a little girl from Missouri who loved to make funny faces. Teachers chided her for this habit; Baker paid them little heed. “Our faces aren’t made to sleep,” she later said.  Baker’s lifeContinue reading “Josephine Baker’s Memoir Is Now Being Published for the First Time in English”