On April 1, 1960, Burke High School students conducted a sit-in at the S.H. Kress & Co. lunch counter, a protest that thrust the city into the main currents of the Civil Rights Movement.

Other Southern students were arrested at Sitman's Drug Store and the lunch counter at Kress Department Store. (Advocate Photo by John Boss; Photo taken 04-04-1960.) Keyword Desegregation, History ...

The Kress' lunch counter with a soda fountain will be remade to its original glory with one portion a soda fountain and another operating as an old-fashioned diner, ...

Allen, 68, was 14 years old during her first protest, and was part of the third group to stage sit-ins in Woolworth's, Newberry's and Kress lunch spots.

By the fourth day of the protest, more than 300 people had joined and the protest had expanded to a lunch counter at a nearby Kress dime store. By the end of the week, students in Winston-Salem, ...

The Kress' lunch counter with a soda fountain will be remade to its original glory with one portion a soda fountain and another operating as an old-fashioned diner, said Robert Monarez, Franklin ...

Integration of 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 ...

S.H. Kress & Co.'s policy of excluding African Americans from their lunch counters changed the trajectory of the civil rights discussion in Charleston. With no Black college students in the area ...

Behind Houston is Mary Enola Briscoe arrested after a sit-in at the Greyhound Bus Station. Other Southern students were arrested at Sitman's Drug Store and the lunch counter at Kress Department Store.