Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights history.

The Greensboro sit-ins began on Feb. 1, 1960, and continued nearly six months until the Woolworth's lunch counter there was integrated on July 25, 1960.

When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W. Woolworth Company was already known for innovation. Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth in New York in 1879, the ...

A town hall meeting commemorated the 50th anniversary of the desegregation sit-in at a Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. On February 1, 1960, four black college students asked for service… ...

The Woolworth’s lunch counter that became a symbol of the civil rights movement in 1960 is part of an exhibit of national icons at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. The 8 ...

And for most of the 20th Century, Woolworth’s lunch counter amounted to one of many lunch counters along State Street. McCrory’s, Kress, H.P. King’s and so forth all had lunch counters.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — New ownership resurrected the former Woolworth building in downtown Nashville, honoring the historic Civil Rights sit-ins with inclusive live performances at the new ...

Woolworth’s dominance was challenged by a boom in discount retailers, and by 1997 the company closed its 400 remaining U.S. stores. The last operating lunch counter , in Bakersfield, California ...