GREENSBORO, N.C. -- History comes alive in Greensboro, in the very spot where one of the iconic moments in the civil rights movement took place. 

Nestled in the heart of downtown Greensboro is the International Civil Rights Center & Museum, a fabulous resource for exploring civil rights history on the local and national level.

The center is housed inside the old F.W. Woolworth's Building, the site of non-violent protests that today stand as courageous acts of peaceful defiance.

Those protests were kickstarted in February of 1960, when four students from NC A&T University took a stand by sitting. Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, and David Richmond refused to leave an all-white lunch counter at Woolworth's, a spot where African Americans were not welcome. The demonstration would lead to a series of sit-ins at locations across the country.

Visitors to the museum get the chance to view the lunch counter and learn more about the sit-in movement.

Other notable attractions include exhibits on civil rights leaders such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Joan Trumpauer Mulholland.

One of the more recent additions to the museum is an exhibit on the U.S. Constitution, focusing on the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.