When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W. Woolworth Company was already known for innovation. Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth in New York in 1879, the ...

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.

Update: Asheville City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance July 23 designating the Woolworth building, at 25 Haywood St., a local historic landmark. ASHEVILLE - The F.W. Woolworth Co ...

On Thursday, the news outlet BlackPressUSA published a report that an exhibit from a historic moment in the Civil Rights Movement, Greensboro’s F.W. Woolworth Company lunch counter, fell victim ...

The students had earlier staged a sit-in at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter at Cameron Village. George Greene, left, a Raleigh lawyer, met with some of the arrested students at the Wake County jail.

Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated many local businesses but also demonstrated the power of interracial cooperation and non-violent protest.