Local ‘The lunch counter now has two empty seats: ’ She is the only one left who can describe what it felt like to sit there that hateful day.

Deli meats hold a solid presence in many refrigerators, quickly turning empty lunch plates into ones brimming with piled-high sandwiches, wraps, sliders, and pizza rolls.

Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights history.

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.

The last operating Woolworth lunch counter, in Bakersfield, California, seen in the 1990s. Courtesy of Emily Waite. When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W ...

In 1960, four black college students, in their freshmen year, showed up to a lunch counter in North Carolina for whites only, and decided they weren't going to leave until they were served.

My first experience with the fountain or lunch counter was at Fountain Square Pharmacy. Dr Chalmers Harper was the pharmacist and he had a very bright store with a clean and friendly lunch counter.

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 ...

The Empty Bowl lunch, hosted at Central Baptist Church, was conducted as a fundraiser for H.O.P.E. Jacksonville, netting $4,000 for the non-profit. H.O.P.E. in coordination with local churches ...

Joseph A. McNeil told his story of standing up to racial segregation at a lunch counter in 1960 to a group of teens for the Town of Huntington's Black History Month project.

Janette Hoston Harris, JoAnn Morris, and John W. Johnson are escorted from a March 1960 lunch counter sit-in. In the back ground are Marvin Robinson, and Donald Moss.