Sentences with phrase «lunch counter where»
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.
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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.
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Are they mostly one - person shops where the owner is also the cashier and sits behind the counter eating her bagged lunch?
Suburban moms are hitting up The Junction Diner in Forest Park, where the diner delivers lunch via train cars around the counter.
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.
I don't have much counter space, but it's important to be organized to streamline lunch prep, so I carve out an area on our kitchen island where I can place the lunch boxes, reusable containers and bags, and individually packaged snacks.
«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.
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.
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.»