In this May 28, 1963, photo, a group of men pour sugar, ketchup and mustard over the heads of demonstrators at a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Miss. (Fred Blackwell/AP ...

2010-02-20T13:33:32-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/881/291970-m.jpgA town hall meeting commemorated the 50th anniversary of the desegregation sit-in at a ...

Fifty years ago, on Feb. 1, four black college students sat down at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. The "Greensboro Four," along with friends and supporters ...

Mississippi will inaugurate a marker Tuesday recalling a civil rights protest 50 years ago when a white mob attacked a racially mixed group seated at a whites-only lunch counter. On May 28 ...

Pearlena Lewis and Memphis Norman--a white man and three black students--at the "Whites Only" counter in Woolworth's store lunch counter. Nobody would serve them. Behind them was a growing crowd ...

In February, the only remaining Woolworth’s lunch counter in America ... supply kits that are up in the stockroom from the ’50s and ’60s. Yeah, there’s some cool things.” ...

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 ...

2020-06-28T08:57:58-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/bc8/20200628092807003_hd.jpgIn 1960, four African American students sat down at a segregated Woolworth’s ...