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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Black high school and college students participate in a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Tampa on Feb ... Triumph” details the sit-in protests at downtown Tampa lunch counters in ...