Image 3: African American man sitting at a closed lunch counter with African American women in the background Image 4: Sign declaring a lunch counter “closed in the interest of public safety” ...

Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights history.

The sit-ins spread to more than a hundred cities, and within six months, the Greensboro lunch counter—now part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History —was desegregated.

In 1960, four black college students, in their freshmen year, showed up to a lunch counter in North Carolina for whites only, and decided they weren't going to leave until they were served. What ...

Smithsonian confirms the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in display will remain at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Claims about the iconic Greensboro lunch counter being removed sparked outrage, revealing deep anxieties about preserving Black history — especially amid recent efforts to diminish it.

Woolworth Lunch Counter stools are exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2016. Opening to the public September ...

The 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture is among the exhibitions slated to be dismantled by the White House administration.

The International Civil Rights Center in Museum in Greensboro donated portions of the lunch counter to two Smithsonian museums.

The April 28 statement refers to reports that the Smithsonian removed the historic Greensboro, North Carolina, lunch counter and a stool from the National Museum of American History and the ...