Sentences with phrase «lunch counter»

At the beginning small groups organized «sit ins» at lunch counters in department and drug stores.

Although many of the company's original coffee shop and lunch counter customers are long gone, the family's business has continued to thrive.

Student courage at lunch counter sit - ins and on Freedom Rides led the way to end to legally - sanctioned racial segregation in America, and they were in the forefront of the movement that forced a President from office and, eventually, an end to the war in Vietnam.

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.

Inside, Dallas - based artist Gabriel Dawe had strung two spectral — and spectrum - crossing — thread sculptures between the columns of a space that had once been a department store lunch counter where 1960s civil rights workers staged sit - ins.

This first of three volumes of Lewis» story brings him from boyhood on the farm, where he doted over the chickens and dreamed of being a preacher, through high school to college, when he met nonviolent activists who showed him a means of undermining segregation — to begin with, at the department - store lunch counters of Nashville.

In 1936, Bob Wian had to make the painful decision to sell his cherished 1933 DeSoto roadster to buy a ten - stool lunch counter from a pair of elderly ladies in Glendale, California.

He was arrested while sitting at a whites - only lunch counter at a bus depot alongside civil rights leaders Ralph Abernathy and William Sloane Coffin.

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.»

What good is a desegregated lunch counter when you can't afford the meal?

We're introduced to Dom and his little sister, Mia (Jordana Brewster), who run a beat - up lunch counter when they're not drag racing through the streets of L.A. Undercover police officer Brian (Paul Walker), sent to investigate a string of truck robberies that Dom may or may not be involved in, is immediately distracted by Mia, who serves him tuna sandwiches on white bread with the crusts cut off.

The film places this moment, which another HBCU alumnus remembers as «earth - shaking,» within the context of the students who put themselves on the line, by the thousand, at lunch counters around the South.

When he visits diners and lunch counters all over the world that serve AB InBev beers, he walks behind the bar to personally inspect the boxes of empties.

Early on, Bell had telephones installed in hotel rooms and offices and near lunch counters.

(Remember the civil rights lunch counter sit - ins of the 1960s.)

King Jr. on February 1, 1960, started a student «sit in» in Greensboro North Carolina, when Joseph Moveill, a Frenchman at the agricultural college of North Carolina, was refused service at the bus terminal lunch counter.

He quickly moved his family down South and opened his first restaurant, a little lunch counter.

My cheeseburger was perfectly grilled and crispy around the edges, exactly what you'd expect from a place styled after a «50s lunch counter.

Ever - reliable, ever - welcome Richard Jenkins plays her commercial illustrator neighbor and friend Giles, a gay man pining for the younger man behind a nearby lunch counter, as well as for a more accepting time.

The film tells a color story, from the lab's New Look green to an awakened Elisa's red high - heel shoes, but there are no rose - colored glasses in place: TV news shows civil rights protesters being blasted with fire hoses, lunch counters turn away black patrons, and Giles rightly notes that he was born too early or too late to lead his life as a gay man in this country.

Dell's Lunch Counter includes over 20 minutes of great extended Interviews.

Times Square becomes a monochromatic monstrosity full of harsh lights, sad - sack lunch counters and nonstop noise; the luxe interiors of 21 and the Elysian Room double nicely for Dante's ninth circle of Hell.

Then it took another hundred years of battling segregation through legislatures and the courts to allow kids with different color skin to attend the same schools and have their parents sit at the same lunch counters.

Tired of stepping off sidewalks to let white people pass, tired of eating at separate lunch counters and learning at separate schools....

He was a ROTC student at the Tuskegee Institute and attended Southern University in Baton Rouge, La., where he participated in a 1960 march to the state capitol protesting segregation and the arrest of students who staged local lunch counter sit - ins.

Rev. Moore was active in the Civil Rights Movement, organizing a student sit - in at Royal Ice Cream parlor in Durham, N.C., on June 23, 1957, prior to the more well - known Greensboro lunch counter protests in 1960.

Much like the civil rights activists who occupied lunch counters, and the suffragettes chaining themselves to Buckingham Palace, I for one believe that non-violent civil disobedience will be a crucial tool in injecting some sanity into the profoundly broken economic and political paradigm we currently operate in.

As a teenager, she worked as a waitress at the very lunch counter where Ms. Griffin, «the Rosa Parks of Des Moines», staged her protests over racial discrimination some 10 years earlier.

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.

I loved the Woolworths lunch counter.

My friend used to order this egg salad / tunasalad / bacon / cheddar sandwich bomb from Eisenberg's lunch counter in NY.

It's the only revolution in which the goal is a desegregated lunch counter, a desegregated theater, a desegregated public park, a desegregated public toilet; you can sit down next to white folks on the toilet.»

Experts point to lunch counter sit - ins and slaves» work in the kitchen in the past — and many recent examples of discrimination.

Speaking at a conference in California, he outlined a vision of a modest and local health care system that summons memories of local drugstores of post-war America serving food at lunch counters.

As he says much more eloquently in this address: lunch counters and voting booths are easy; everything else that needed to change (and he did have a lot more in mind) would be much more difficult.

As he says much more eloquently in this address: lunch counters and voting booths are easy; everything else that needed to change (and he did have a

It's the same one whose preachers (along with their community's teachers, police, civic leaders, and so forth) ranted against civil rights and for a continuation of Jim Crow, and who encouraged and applauded their teenage children to go beat up people in lunch counters.

These are the same hollow and hateful voices that kept blacks from eating at the Woolworth's lunch counters in the 1950s / 1960s.

MLK had to watch gay white men sit at the lunch counter after voting... gay is not the same as being black.

Years afterward when I was a freedom rider, an earnest figure of the early «60s, I endeavored to test (and change) the law that enforced apartheid — the practice of separate lives and opportunities for blacks and whites — and that even forbade racial mixing at a lunch counter.

I remember a lady who worked the lunch counter, and when you would ask her how she was, she would always respond «I'm blessed».

In this case, a black person could not eat a lunch counter, use the same bathroom or water fountain as someon white, ride at the back of the bus or stand - up if asked, attend the same church as a white peron, inter-marry, could not go into a store if asked to stay out, etc..

How about if I say that no Jews can sit at the lunch counter?