The plan: March up to the whites-only lunch counter at the Woolworth’s dime store in downtown Greensboro, sit down and refuse to leave until they were served. Sit-in protests had been held ...

Demonstrators gather in front of a Woolworth store in Harlem, Feb. 13, 1960, to protest lunch counter discrimination in Greensboro, Charlotte and Durham, North Carolina. The demonstrators ...

Edmonds gave a talk Saturday at the Westmoreland History Education Center in Hempfield, on the 65th anniversary of the lunch-counter sit-in that ultimately sparked similar protests across the ...

It was illegal for a Black person to sit at the White lunch counter. To protest this law, African-Americans sat at the Whites-only lunch counters day after day until they were taken away by the ...

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 ...

was 14 years old during her first protest, and was part of the third group to stage sit-ins in Woolworth's, Newberry's and Kress lunch spots. "We'd go to Woolworth's and they'd shut the counter ...

In 1960 four Black college students in Greensboro, North Carolina, launched a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter to protest segregation. The sit-ins spread to more than a hundred cities ...

Stageworks Theatre presents on Friday the world premiere of "When the Righteous Triumph," a drama about the lunch counter protests that took place at Tampa's F.W. Woolworth Department Store on the ...

This photo shows Civil Rights protesters studying at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s in Durham on Feb. 10, 1960. Many of the protesters were from nearby N.C. College, now known as N.C. Central ...

Inspired by lunch counter protests in Greensboro, 130 African American students entered eight Raleigh establishments and requested service. Of those protesters, 41 students from both Shaw and St ...