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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

Clarence L. “Curly” Harris, manager of the city’s Woolworth’s lunch counter where the civil rights sit-in movement was born in Greensboro, N.C., has died. He was 94. It was … ...

David Richmond (from left), Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., and Joseph McNeil leave the Woolworth in Greensboro, N.C., where they initiated a lunch-counter sit-in to protest segregation, Feb. 1 ...

Anderson's collective fondness for the Woolworth lunch counter wasn't unusual. In 1979, when the international chain was the fourth-largest U.S. retailer (behind Sears, JC Penney and Kmart), it ...

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 ...