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.

After three consecutive days of action, Katz Drug Store served the 13 Black children and integrated its lunch counter. Hildreth didn't just participate in the sit-in — she initiated it.

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 ...

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.

A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, which was one of the first lunch counter sit-ins in America. The Katz Drug Store Sit-In was led by Clara Luper ...

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 ...

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 ...