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

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 ...

Smithsonian confirms the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in display will remain at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Brown grew up in Bolton, North Carolina, and was a student at North Carolina A&T when the first Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in started on Feb. 1, 1960.