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.

One popular strategy was the sit-in. In the South, drug stores had segregated lunch counters, one for Whites and one for Blacks. It was illegal for a Black person to sit at the White lunch counter.

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 ...

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.

Greensboro, NC, store's busboy offered note: “I am with you all the way.” Sixty-two years ago, four Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in ...

Thanks to what we called “Jim Crow laws,” African Americans weren’t welcome at department store lunch counters throughout the segregated South. They could buy food, but they had to pick it ...

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 ...

Although Woolworth opened its doors to Black shoppers, the store did not allow Black customers to order food and drinks at the lunch counter restricted to whites. The peculiar logic of racial ...