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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Established in 1925, Woolworth’s lunch counter began serving meals to employees and shoppers. However, under the prevailing ...

There was a lunch counter in the basement of the Kress & Co. building at 224 E. Douglas. There was one in the McLellan Stores Co., a five-and-dime at 121 E. Douglas.

On April, 1 1960, 24 students from Burke High School in Charleston staged a sit-in at the segregated Kress and Co. lunch counter. They were refused service, but remained seated.

Plans of what the inside of the Kress building will look in 2025 were revealed by project architects Thursday. ... The soda fountain lunch counter as well as a coffee shop, ...

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.