North Carolina

Greensboro Historical Museum
This museum documents the historic February 1960 sit-in at the Woolworth lunch counter through large photographic murals and artifacts.

Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement
This informative site provides a comprehensive look at the major players in the Greensboro, NC, sit-ins of the 1960s.

International Civil Rights Center and Museum
 Located in Greensboro’s old Woolworth building itself, this museum includes the actual lunch counter from the historic February 1960 sit-in as well as a comprehensive depiction of the civil rights struggle.

John Hope Franklin Center For Interdisciplinary Studies
The John Hope Franklin Center for Interdisciplinary and International Studies is a unique consortium of programs committed to revitalizing notions of how knowledge is gained and exchanged. Participants from a broad range of disciplines converge to explore intellectual issues, including some of the most pressing social and political themes of our time: race and race relations, the legacy of the African-American experience, and equality and opportunity among diverse populations.

NCCU Institute For Minority Issues
Promotes faculty, student and institutional research related to minorities, particularly African Americans, in the New South.

UNC Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center
 The University’s prominent Black cultural center devoted to “encourage and support the critical examination of all dimensions of African and African American diaspora cultures through sustained and open discussion, dialogue and debate.”

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill —
The Southern Oral History Collection with the Southern Historical Collection
UNC's collection features over 1,500 interviews with a diverse range of people living in the Southeast. About a quarter of the collection is estimated to relate directly or indirectly to the Civil Rights Movement. Indexes of the collection are available on request.