She never ate dinner, considering lunch superior. However you rate lunch, it is probably the original meal—for much of ...

The lunch counter is an 8-foot section of the original lunch counter from Woolworth Department Store in Greensboro, North Carolina. There is a laminated black countertop with a stainless-steel trim ...

“The Greensboro, NC, lunch counter is not leaving the Smithsonian,” St. Thomas wrote. “It is on display at the National Museum of American History where it has been for many years.” ...

Woolworth Lunch Counter stools are exhibited at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 14, 2016.

A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, which was one of the first lunch counter sit-ins in America.

It was the pharmacy lunch counter that I liked best. While in college my future wife and I could get a meat and two, a banana pudding and coke for under a dollar each and it was delicious.

The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E. Douglas until it closed on Dec. 22, 1990, a month ahead of the 12,000 square-foot store.

The first day of business was slow. Chilly weather had potential customers walking briskly past the signs offering burritos. Tina Carter, who works behind the counter serving food, said the shop will ...

Creator National Museum of American History Video Title Reflections on the Greensboro Lunch Counter Description Civil Rights activists Joseph McNeil, Diane Nash, and John Lewis reflect on the history ...