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This launched a series of protests that would spread ... The old Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter has been preserved at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro and ...
Stageworks Theatre presents on Friday the world premiere of "When the Righteous Triumph," a drama about the lunch counter protests ... 50th anniversary of the Civil Rights Act, the city of Tampa ...
Playwright Mark E. Leib conducted interviews and did extensive research into the lunch counter protests that happened in Tampa and sheds light on the little-known history through his new play ...
Helena Hicks, a civil rights advocate who led a 1950s protest to desegregate the old Read’s drug store lunch counter, died of pneumonia complicated by Lewy body dementia Thursday at the William L.
The Rev. James Lawson, the man who inspired a generation of nonviolent activists in the earliest days of the Civil Rights ... expelled for helping with lunch counter protests.
The almighty dollar ruled: protests cut into restaurants ... at the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, in Atlanta. There, visitors sit at a mock lunch counter and don headphones ...
Greensboro was home to the Woolworth lunch counter sit-in protests in 1960 started by four Black students. Robinson befriended one of the later participants of the protest – Clarence Henderson ...