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.

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.

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.

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 ...

When Pipkin Drug Store refused to serve one of the students ... local leaders had chosen to follow the example of San Antonio and integrate lunch counters voluntarily. “We were proud of ...

By August 11th, 1958, they had desegregated the Dockum Drug Store lunch counter and all Rexall Drug Stores throughout the State of Kansas. In the summer of 1958, two dozen young people from the ...

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 ...

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.

Nowhere is this more evident than the horseshoe-shaped tile lunch ... Ike put the store under six and a half feet of water barely a year later, it only took three months for Star Drug to bounce ...

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 ...