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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 ...
River Roads Mall, pictured here in 1961, was a fixture in Jennings for a couple of decades. Inside was a Woolworth store that ...
F.W. Woolworth’s, one of the original five-and-dime stores, was just as well-known for its lunch counter as it was for its retail empire. The joy of a fresh cup of Joe poured from a human ...
travels to Greensboro to join the lunch counter protest at F.W. Woolworth. Whether in a Hollywood portrayal or a Smithsonian museum, the lunch counter and stools from that dime store in Greensboro ...
Stools from the then-segregated downtown F.W. Woolworth store lunch counter, where four N.C. A&T freshmen sat down in 1960, igniting a movement, were spotted during a sneak-peek inside the ...
The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in downtown Greensboro marked the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death ...
When Woolworth's declared bankruptcy ... of some of the first civil rights lunch-counter sit-in protests. East Coast, Midwest George Clinton Murphy had already built one chain of dime stores (which he ...
Urban strategy firm to move from Woolworth Building to Midtown 3 companies sign office leases at 600 Lexington Avenue in NFL ...