Smithsonian confirms the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in display will remain at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Joseph A. McNeil told his story of standing up to racial segregation at a lunch counter in 1960 to a group of teens for the Town of Huntington's Black History Month project.

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

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.

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 ...

The lunch counter existed from the time that F.W. Woolworth opened in 1912 at 205 E. Douglas until it closed on Dec. 22, 1990, a month ahead of the 12,000 square-foot store.