The highlight of the plaza will be a $3.6 million bronze monument commemorating the Aug. 19, 1958, sit-in at the Katz lunch ...

Lunch counter sculpture to honor Civil Rights Activist Clara Luper in the heart of downtown. Story by Mecca Thompson/KFOR ... which was one of the first lunch counter sit-ins in America.

One of the first lunch counter sit-ins of the civil rights movement took place in Oklahoma City in 1958. This weekend, the city remembers the protest and its organizer, Clara Luper.

The F.W. Woolworth's lunch counter is part of the collection at the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, N.C., on display, Sept. 16, 2016.

TAMPA, Fla. — The fact of the matter is simple: You cannot talk about civil rights in Tampa, without talking about the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins. It was a turning point for Tampa and ...

Joseph A. McNeil, of Hempstead, took a seat at a "whites-only" Greensboro lunch counter 63 years ago and decided it was time to take a stand. McNeil, 80, is one of the two surviving civil rights ...

Helena Hicks, a civil rights advocate who led a 1950s protest to desegregate the old Read’s drug store lunch counter, died of pneumonia complicated by Lewy body dementia Thursday at the William ...

From the Lunch Counter to the Supreme Court: ... Growing up in the District of Columbia was ample preparation for the civil rights movement, ... Our weapon was the First Amendment. We demanded our ...

Lunch counter sculpture to honor Civil Rights Activist Clara Luper in the heart of downtown by: Mecca Thompson/KFOR. Posted: Feb 27, 2025 / 09:14 PM CST. Updated: Feb 27, 2025 / 09:49 PM CST.