This video is no longer available. Exactly 85 years after five Black men were arrested at a Northern Virginia library during a civil rights protest, the Alexandria Library unveiled a new traveling ...

A powerful new exhibit honors one of the first civil rights sit-in protests in America. In 1939, when the Alexandria Library was only open to white people, Samuel Tucker and five other young Black men ...

It was the quietest of protests. Five young African American men sat reading at separate tables in Alexandria’s new whites-only library on Queen Street. They had just been refused library cards; in ...

Awareness among campus students about the sit-in in the Anthropology Library is growing as the movement gains traction. According to anthropology doctoral candidate Jesús Gutiérrez, who works as the ...

Say “civil rights sit-in,” and the mind automatically flashes to the famous peaceful protests that took place in 1960 at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. But many other ...

Update 2/28/2022: This story has been updated to include additional information about the library's closure. The UC Berkeley Anthropology Library will remain open after approximately 40 students and ...