And Woolworth sold a little bit of everything, from bathmats to brassieres, from gardenia plants to tea kettles. The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E.

Flynt knows that desegregation sit-ins once took place at a Winston-Salem Woolworth’s lunch counter and wants to know whether his signs are a part of that history. Host Tukufu Zuberi sets out to ...

In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, defiant in their sharp attire, staring back at the camera with the ...

[email protected] Jun 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 HAVERHILL — For years, the chrome-backed swiveling stools and lunch counter inside the downtown Woolworth building gathered dust as the roof of ...

Instead, workers inside an F.W. Woolworth store in Tampa, Flordia, declared their lunch counter closed to her and other high school students 65 years ago. The students refused to leave without ...

The collective voluntary move was inspired by a sit-in organized the previous month by four Black students who refused to give up their seats at a “whites only” lunch counter at a Woolworth ...

Flynt knows that desegregation sit-ins once took place at a Winston-Salem Woolworth’s lunch counter and wants to know whether his signs are a part of that history. Host Tukufu Zuberi sets out to ...

A group of 20 A&T College students occupied lunch counter seats at the downtown F.W. Woolworth Co. store. They are, from left, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson.