Sentences with phrase «only lunch counter»

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.

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»...

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.

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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.

There was only one counter staff on duty because it was the lunch hour.