Like many public spaces in the mid-1900s, some lunch counters were subject to Jim Crow laws, and thereby inadvertent ...

The last Woolworth’s lunch counter currently resembles a puzzle. On the first floor of the Woolworth’s building in downtown Bakersfield, relics from the historic building are scattered ...

Greensboro, NC, store's busboy offered note: “I am with you all the way.” Sixty-two years ago, four Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in ...

Thanks to what we called “Jim Crow laws,” African Americans weren’t welcome at department store lunch counters throughout the segregated South. They could buy food, but they had to pick it ...

So about 25 or 30 of the Black teens gathered on Woodland Boulevard one afternoon, marched to the Woolworth's store, crowded around the lunch counter and tried to order something from the soda ...

By Pete Wells Eisenberg’s Sandwich Shop, a narrow, anachronistic lunch counter on lower Fifth Avenue, went up for sale several times over the years. Each time, its regulars reacted the way you ...

When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W. Woolworth Company was already known for innovation. Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth in New York in 1879 ...