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 ...

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.

“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. Opening to the public September ...

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.

Though the four North Carolina A&T students were not the first to sit at a segregated lunch counter — history records sit-ins taking place in Chicago in 1942 and St. Louis, Mo., in 1949 ...

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.

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.

Integration of the lunch counter at Kress Department Store in San Antonio on March 16, 1960. This photo is commonly misidentified as being taken inside F.W. Woolworth’s, which was integrated on ...

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 ...