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Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights history.
Four stools and a section of the lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s, where silent protests against discrimination were held, are on display at the Smithsonian’s ...
The F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter is part of the collection at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C., on display, Sept. 16, 2016.
Claims about the iconic Greensboro lunch counter being removed sparked outrage, revealing deep anxieties about preserving Black history — especially amid recent efforts to diminish it.
Smithsonian confirms the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in display will remain at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.
The International Civil Rights Center in Museum in Greensboro donated portions of the lunch counter to two Smithsonian museums.
We fact-check a report that the Trump administration ordered pieces of the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from Greensboro to be removed from the Smithsonian Institution.
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. What ...
Both the Greensboro lunch counter and stools where college students sat in protest during the Civil Rights Movement are and continue to be on display. A stool from the sit-ins remains on view at the ...
The 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture is among the exhibitions slated to be dismantled by the White House administration.
Four stools and a section of the lunch counter from the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s, where silent protests against discrimination were held, are on display at the Smithsonian’s ...