Berkshire Eagle

While sit-ins raged in the South in 1960, Pittsfield's integrated Woolworth store drew only a brief picket

It is a plus to hear from baby boomers when a story brings back memories from their youthful days. Sometimes these memories are bittersweet. Following my Berkshire Eagle story on Pittsfield’s ...
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Joseph McNeil, who helped spark a protest movement at a Greensboro lunch counter, dies at 83

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...
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Looking back at the history-making Greensboro Woolworth sit-in

Four Black college students changed the course of history with a 1960 sit-in protest at the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. On Feb. 1, 1960 four Black college students conducted ...
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This 1960s Mall Restaurant Chain Was Part Of Woolworth's, But Didn't Include A Lunch Counter

A black and white image of a shop of Woolworths for values sign outside of a mall - Leila Grossman/Getty Images You know that $1.50 Costco hot dog everyone loves so much? That little morsel of value ...