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

The 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in display in the National Museum of African American History and Culture will not be removed from the museum, Smithsonian officials say.

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 ...

Swaine said the museum hasn't been notified of any changes. He also said that to his knowledge, none of the lunch counter displays had been taken from their museums, and there were never any plans to.

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.

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 Greensboro, NC, lunch counter is not leaving the Smithsonian,” St. Thomas wrote. “It is on display at the National Museum of American History where it has been for many years.” ...

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.

Part of the lunch counter remains on display in one of the Woolworth’s front windows overlooking 5th Avenue North, which in 2021 was renamed John Lewis Way by Nashville’s Metro Council in ...

Lunch Counter Sculpture ... OKLAHOMA CITY (KFOR) — The life and legacy of Clara Shepard Luper will be on full display in the heart of downtown. Lunch Counter Sculpture (KFOR) ...

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 ...