(GREENSBORO, N.C.) -- Sixty-two years ago, four Black college students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their actions that day reverberated ...
My summer job was a block away from the five-and-ten-cent store, as it was called then, and I took to dropping in for the ...
Charlie Brown sat and recalled days gone by and days to come recently at the old Woolworth’s lunch counter on State Street. Only thing. Woolworth’s is long gone. So too are many of Brown’s buddies, ...
They took some heat when they closed the Woolworth’s building and its popular lunch counter nearly four years ago.
In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, defiant in their sharp attire, staring back at the camera with the ...
FOND DU LAC — Throughout the first half of the 20th century, dime stores reigned supreme, and Fond du Lac was no different when it came to the community's love for Woolworth's. For a time in the store ...
Renovation plans for the 1921 Woolworth Building, including reconstruction of half of a lunch counter that helped desegregate San Antonio in 1960, have been approved for the Alamo Visitor Center and ...
TAMPA, Fla. — The fact of the matter is simple: You cannot talk about civil rights in Tampa, without talking about the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins. It was a turning point for Tampa and was ...
Do you have fond memories of eating at a Woolworth's lunch counter where a quick, post-shopping meal always came with a free side order of friendly sass? Among the standard menu items of sandwiches, ...