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 ...

A statue of the four freshmen who led the sit-in at the lunch counter of a Woolworth’s department store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Ted Richardson/For The Washington Post via Getty Images On ...

Flynt knows that desegregation sit-ins once took place at a Winston-Salem Woolworth’s lunch counter and wants to know whether his signs are a part of that history. Host Tukufu Zuberi sets out to ...