Sentences with phrase «lunch counters of»

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.

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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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.

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.)

«When African - Americans were denied a seat at a lunch counter because of their skin color there was a genuine disparity of equality.

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..

This is the exact kind of thing I always wished I had waiting for me when I would try to pack lunch for the office, instead of the same old leftovers or deli counter dry turkey sandwich — not just a salad but a welcome break from routine.

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.

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 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.

Staff was totally confused, I gave up my lunch after 45 minutes of standing at the counter waiting on a tuna melt.

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.

We used to push our trays along a long metal counter with lunch ladies serving food from a steam table on the other side of a glass partition.

All of the other people on the tour spent that hour and a half traipsing around looking for a lunch counter.

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

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Her parents convinced her that «even if she couldn't have a hamburger at the Woolworth's lunch counter, she could be president of the United States.»

We all have heard stories about cats stealing lunch meat from their owner's sandwich or dogs «counter surfing» to find that delicious and warm fresh loaf of bread.

You will find an excellent counter lunch at any of the four Main Street pubs and soon find yourself yarning with the locals.

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.

«As well known as Thiebaud is for his paintings of food and lunch counters, what gets overlooked is his ability to merge the fanciful with the formal.

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.

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.»

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?

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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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.

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.