Sentences with phrase «integrated lunch counters»

Post-integration, too many black people couldn't sit down at integrated lunch counters and buy a hamburger; 50 years later, too many people of every race have the same problem.

Always ahead of his time, Kunstler's lifelong commitment to civil rights began when he went to Mississippi to defend Freedom Riders being arrested for trying to integrate lunch counters and other public accommodations.

John Lewis, as a young man, reminded us that we had the courage to integrate lunch counters, to desegregate interstate buses, and to march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge to spark a national movement that would lead to the Voting Rights Act.