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The former Woolworth's in Greensboro, N.C., (pictured) is on the National Register of Historic Places for being the site in 1960 of some of the first civil rights lunch-counter sit-in protests. East ...
Jump into the time machine and take a look at these old photos ... 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 ...
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 ...
BlackPressUSA NEWSWIRE – In an update to the BlackPressUSA exclusive on the lunch counter exhibit at the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, the Smithsonian now says the ...
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 ...
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 ...
A picture from 1990 shows the “Try Woolworth’s Luncheonette” sign that once hung on the outside of the building at 205 E. Douglas. Archive But one Wichita lunch counter outlasted them all ...
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 ...
And a special collection of records, letters and pictures at the University of South Florida ... when black students sat at a 'whites-only' lunch counter in Woolworth's. Tampa Mayor Julian Lane ...
On February 29, 1960, a group of Black students sat at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Tampa to protest its whites-only ... adding context to documents and photos they collected from the community. "In ...