Sentences with phrase «lunch counter in»

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.

Joe has lived on the island all of his life, and is still close to his childhood friend, Helen (Crystal Bernard), who runs the lunch counter in the airport.

This would be akin to pretending that a segregated lunch counter in Georga was operating without a system of legal coercion in the background.

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

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

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

Not exact matches

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

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.

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

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

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..

I had bought some apples to go in with the lunch my husband's takes to work, too much of a healthy push from me and the poor apples sat on the counter for a couple of days, unwanted.

The front is an all - day to - go counter selling sandwiches, soups, and grain bowls (when the restaurant opens for dinner in a few weeks, it'll be bar seating), while the back dining room is made for airy power lunches.

In a dream world, you could park yourself at a bistro table on the porch in the morning with your laptop and a Counter Culture Coffee cortado and not leave until you've finished lunch, dinner, dessert — and just one more glass of Loire Chenin BlanIn a dream world, you could park yourself at a bistro table on the porch in the morning with your laptop and a Counter Culture Coffee cortado and not leave until you've finished lunch, dinner, dessert — and just one more glass of Loire Chenin Blanin the morning with your laptop and a Counter Culture Coffee cortado and not leave until you've finished lunch, dinner, dessert — and just one more glass of Loire Chenin Blanc.

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.

Farther south at Mammoth Mountain, Skimeister Dave McCoy and his wife gazed in awe at the three miles of parked cars, at the lunch - counter crowds three deep around every stool, at the hordes on the lower slopes.

Suburban moms are hitting up The Junction Diner in Forest Park, where the diner delivers lunch via train cars around the counter.

The first time I made this my sons were eating lunch and I left it out on the counter in case they wanted to try some.

You wouldn't serve your child something that has been sitting on the counter for half a day, yet that's what parents often send in school lunches, says Bessie Berry, acting director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Meat and Poultry Hotline.

Students in DC Public Schools depend on breakfasts, lunches, after school snacks, supper, and fresh fruit and vegetables to counter the effects of a rough economy and widening urban income inequality.

In fact, most will recall receiving a pre-wrapped peanut butter and jelly sandwich on the days where they left their lunch on their kitchen counter.

When there babies are evolving to tots they will need the stools to step up to the bathroom counter to brush their teeth, in the kitchen helping mommy prepare lunch, and to reach books on their dresser.

I am in high school so it's a bit different (though I can say that in elementary school and middle school we had the metal counter with the lunch ladies serving food).

But ever since I launched EasyLunchboxes.com, we've been like kids in a candy store, only in this case, it's kids at the lunch counter.

Brave men and women have already waged this battle, sitting in defiance of discrimination at lunch counters to insist on service and the fulfillment of the promises of equality that this nation was built upon.»

Pal's Takeaway - This unassuming sandwich counter is in the back of Tony's market and liquor and a favorite of the lunch crowd at nearby SF General.

For a quick low - sodium lunch, try a turkey sandwich prepared with lean, freshly roasted turkey breast instead of deli - counter cold cuts which can be extremely high in sodium.

The boys eat apples every day in their school lunches so I always have bowls of them on the counter.

«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.

Magnolia Elementary supports healthy and safe students with a harvestable school garden program that provides fresh produce for school lunches and more physical education programs to counter the lack of safe parks in the school's surrounding neighborhoods.

The lunch counter from the Greensboro, N.C., sit - ins during the 1960s desegregation efforts was my favorite exhibit.

(2) any restaurant, cafeteria, lunchroom, lunch counter, soda fountain, or other facility principally engaged in selling food for consumption on the premises, including, but not limited to, any such facility located on the

Readers will know after reading Rubin's book that the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), a civil rights group that grew out of the lunch - counter sit - ins in the early 1960s, organized Freedom Summer.

I sat there in the car with the gravel dust blowing across the parking lot and saw the place for what it was, not what it was right at that moment in the hot sunlight, but for what it had been maybe twelve or fifteen years before: a real general store with folks gathered around the lunch counter, a line of people at the soda fountain, little children ordering ice cream of just about every flavor you could think of, hard candy by the quarter pound, moon pies and crackerjack and other things I hadn't thought about tasting in years.

Counter lunch and dinner 7 days, or in our dining room.

Circumstances have you trying to cover up a murder in the restroom of a diner while a cop chats it up with a waitress just mere feet away at the lunch counter.

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.

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.

Since the desires of the climate movement are to limit the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere in order to ensure a safe environment in which we can live long into the future, protest actions taken by the movement are not necessarily seen as moral objections to unjust laws in the same way sitting at a lunch counter or taking a seat at the front of a bus obviously are.

That's deniers for you... screaming in fear at phantoms that aren't there, such as the evil government that took away their whites - only lunch counter and is now trying to confuse them with this strange stuff called «overwhelming scientific proof»...

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.

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.

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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.

• Served packed and prepared lunches to students according to their specific orders • Took orders for beverages and ensured that all orders were expedited • Cleaned and sanitized tables, chairs and counters and ensured that any spills were properly cleaned up • Assisted cooks in creating and packing lunch items and ensured that they were properly stored in designated areas • Made certain that all supplies such as napkins and condiments were available and contacted suppliers for low stock items

Normally, I would've done a little homework before driving three hours to spend $ 59 on a counter top, $ 30 on gas and $ 10 on lunch - but since the whole trip was pretty spontaneous, I didn't even think about hopping on Ikea's website to make sure they had the counter top we wanted in stock.

Hostess tip: I like to leave some mouth wash out on the guest bathroom or powder room counter for guests to swish if they're feeling less than fresh after indulging in a big lunch or dinner.