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 ...

The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E. Douglas until it closed on Dec. 22, 1990, a month ahead of the 12,000 square-foot store.

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.

The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E. Douglas until it closed on Dec. 22, 1990, a month ahead of the 12,000 square-foot store.

Photos from on or around March 16, 1960, at the Woolworth building's lunch counter would illuminate desegregation in South Central Texas. San Antonio Express-News Hearst Newspapers Logo Skip to ...

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

WBAL NewsRadio 1090/FM 101.5 - (GREENSBORO, N.C.) -- Sixty-two years ago, four Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Sixty-two years ago, four Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their actions that day reverberated ...

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 ...