Sentences with phrase «woolworths lunch counter»
I loved the Woolworths lunch counter.
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Standout items include a section of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter (different from the Smithsonian's) where black college students staged the first protest and a bronze casting of the Birmingham jail cell door where King penned his «Letter from a Birmingham Jail.»
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These are the same hollow and hateful voices that kept blacks from eating at the Woolworth's lunch counters in the 1950s / 1960s.
«Did we sit down at a lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, North Carolina, February 1, 1960, to arrive at another lunch counter today where we are welcome but we can't read the menu?»
The Woolworth's lunch counter stools where four African American students held a sit - in, in 1960, when denied service, is on display.
Her parents convinced her that «even if she couldn't have a hamburger at the Woolworth's lunch counter, she could be president of the United States.»
Likewise, Richard Anderson captured a sit - in at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Richmond, Virginia, with a «Restaurant Closed» sign prominently advertising the store's refusal to serve its African American customers.
One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit - in movement began on February 1, 1960, when four African - American college students sat down at the whites - only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina.