In a collective, voluntary move, lunch counters and cafeterias at seven Alamo City businesses integrated on March 16, 1960, ...
Another Wichita Woolworth store, which also had a lunch counter, lasted at the Ken-Mar Shopping Center at 13th and Oliver until 1993. Other Woolworth stores also had operated in Eastgate Plaza at ...
The life and legacy of Clara Shepard Luper will be on full display in the heart of downtown. A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, which was one of ...
Flynt knows that desegregation sit-ins once took place at a Winston-Salem Woolworth’s lunch counter and wants to know whether his signs are a part of that history. Host Tukufu Zuberi sets out to ...
Clarence Henderson told Brevard Academy students last week America is “the greatest country in the world,” but “you have to ...
Former Woolworth employees reunite after 60 years, reflecting on friendship, the 1960 sit-ins, and the lunch counter’s ...
Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated many local businesses but also demonstrated the power of interracial cooperation and non-violent protest.
Flynt knows that desegregation sit-ins once took place at a Winston-Salem Woolworth’s lunch counter and wants to know whether his signs are a part of that history. Host Tukufu Zuberi sets out to ...
This week’s featured restaurant was the longest-lasting lunch counter in downtown Wichita and operated for nearly 80 years. In 1950s Wichita, one of the most coveted seats over the lunch hour ...