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The last operating Woolworth lunch counter, in Bakersfield, California, seen in the 1990s. Courtesy of Emily Waite. When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W ...
In 1961, a group of black students sat down at a segregated lunch counter in Pensacola. Today, they're remembered for their efforts. ... Allen, 68, was 14 years old during her first protest, ...
March 25, 1808: Ralph Gorrell sells 42 acres at the center of Guilford County to build the town of Greensborough for the price of $98. Forty-four lots are sold for ...
BACKGROUND: The lunch counter is an artifact from the 1960 sit-in protests in Greensboro, where four North Carolina A&T students sat during the height of the Civil Rights movement.
A section of the original lunch counter from the Greensboro Woolworth store has been on exhibit since the mid-1990s in the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C.
Smithsonian confirms the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in display will remain at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
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Claims about the iconic Greensboro lunch counter being removed sparked outrage, revealing deep anxieties about preserving Black history — especially amid recent efforts to diminish it.
Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights history.
We fact-check a report that the Trump administration ordered pieces of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from Greensboro to be removed from the Smithsonian Institution.