Helena Hicks, a civil rights advocate who led a 1950s protest to desegregate the old Read’s drug store lunch counter, died of pneumonia complicated by Lewy body dementia Thursday at the William L.

The west Volusia County teenagers were not the first in Florida or the United States to stage a lunch counter sit-in. Some credit the July 1948 drug store protests in Des Moines as the first.

From the outside, ADD Drug looks like it could be any pharmacy attached to a grocery store ... gift shop, and a counter that serves breakfast and lunch. Since 1961, ADD (Athens Discount Drug ...

two students organized a sit-in at Sitman's Drug Store lunch counter. And another seven sat down at the Greyhound Bus Station lunch counter. A total of 16 students were arrested and, according to ...

When Pipkin Drug Store refused to serve one of the students ... local leaders had chosen to follow the example of San Antonio and integrate lunch counters voluntarily. “We were proud of ...

Whelan, they had already made a national reputation. By the 1920s, they had created the Whelan Drug Store chain, whose lunch counters were crowded all over the country. George Whelan was a popular ...

By August 11th, 1958, they had desegregated the Dockum Drug Store lunch counter and all Rexall Drug Stores throughout the State of Kansas. In the summer of 1958, two dozen young people from the ...

And the W.T. Grant Co. department store at 201 E. Douglas also had a lunch counter in the basement. And there was, of course, Wichita’s most famous lunch counter in the Dockum Drug Store at 111 E.

Nowhere is this more evident than the horseshoe-shaped tile lunch ... Ike put the store under six and a half feet of water barely a year later, it only took three months for Star Drug to bounce ...

Edward Biasi also operated a drug store in Towanda from 1926-1933 and ... Biasi’s expanded its fountain and lunch counter service by some 20 seats while discontinuing the rental library, liquor ...