Sentences with phrase «lunch counter sit»

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.

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.

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

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

Not exact matches

Are they mostly one - person shops where the owner is also the cashier and sits behind the counter eating her bagged lunch?

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

The latter sounds like not allowing blacks to sit 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.»

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Are we less ethical than we used to be — perhaps when we wouldn't allow people to sit at lunch counters on the basis of skin color?

She had just sat down at her desk for a quick bite of something for lunch, but she hopped up and squeezed me with a smile, the second I peeked over her trusty red counter.