Articles from the Richmond Times Dispatch from the 1950s to the 1960s touching on massive resistance to integration. These articles cover multiple towns and countys within Virginia, and the political crisis of the time.
Civil rights sit-in by John Salter, Joan Trumpauer, and Anne Moody at Woolworth's lunch counter. People pour sugar, ketchup and mustard on them in protest
After being refused service at a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth’s, four African-American men launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America.
David Richmond (from left), Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil leave the Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C., where they initiated a lunch-counter sit-in to protest segregation, Feb. 1, 1960