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While the Alamo Trust is attempting to re-create Woolworth’s 1960 lunch counter, officials will accept photos from any year. That’s because Woolworth rarely remodeled its lunch counter ...
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 ...
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 ...
Despite earlier reports of its removal, the historic Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit remains proudly on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), also ...
In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown ... Decades later, Bess would pose for pictures and sign autographs at the ...