And Woolworth sold a little bit of everything, from bathmats to brassieres, from gardenia plants to tea kettles. The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E.

In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, defiant in their sharp attire, staring back at the camera with the ...

Flynt knows that desegregation sit-ins once took place at a Winston-Salem Woolworth’s lunch counter and wants to know whether his signs are a part of that history. Host Tukufu Zuberi sets out to ...

[email protected] Jun 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 HAVERHILL — For years, the chrome-backed swiveling stools and lunch counter inside the downtown Woolworth building gathered dust as the roof of ...

The collective voluntary move was inspired by a sit-in organized the previous month by four Black students who refused to ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Woolworth Lunch Counter holds an abundance of hallowed history, not just for Greensboro, but for all of Civil Rights. “Working the dish room was tough, it was tough work ...

A group of 20 A&T College students occupied lunch counter seats at the downtown F.W. Woolworth Co. store. They are, from left, Joseph McNeil, Franklin McCain, Billy Smith and Clarence Henderson.