The Civil Rights Movement was active from the mid ... It was illegal for a Black person to sit at the White lunch counter. To protest this law, African-Americans sat at the Whites-only lunch ...

The life and legacy of Clara Shepard Luper will be on full display in the heart of downtown. A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, which was one of ...

Another Wichita Woolworth store, which also had a lunch counter, lasted at the Ken-Mar Shopping Center at 13th and Oliver until 1993. Other Woolworth stores also had operated in Eastgate Plaza at ...

Clarence Henderson told Brevard Academy students last week America is “the greatest country in the world,” but “you have to ...

The City of Tampa is hosting a ceremony on Thursday honoring the 65th anniversary of the historic Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins that played a major role in the Civil Rights Movement.

Former Woolworth employees reunite after 60 years, reflecting on friendship, the 1960 sit-ins, and the lunch counter’s ...

Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated ... cooperation and non-violent protest. In 1960, as civil rights protests throughout the South made headlines ...