10 NC Black history lessons you likely weren ... Then Davis comes to the Greensboro Woolworth’s. “You ever seen that picture before?” he asks. “Yeah, This is the infamous Greensboro ...
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 ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. — It was a reunion six decades in the making. Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the Civil Rights Movement met again Friday for the first time since the early ...
WFMY News 2 spoke one-on-one with an organizer who was only a teenager at the time. Mary Lou Andrews Blakeney started working as a civil rights leader at the age of 15. She helped organize the ...
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 ...
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.