He worked at Woolworth during famous Greensboro sit-in. Meet ‘The Man Behind the Counter’
Charles Bess was a busboy when four Black college students defied the segregated lunch counter. This documentary shares his ...
Flashback Friday: Downtown Woolworth store had one of Wichita’s most-loved lunch counters
Another Wichita Woolworth store, which also had a lunch counter, lasted at the Ken-Mar Shopping Center at 13th and Oliver ...
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Ceremony honors Tampa’s historic Woolworth lunch counter sit-in participants 65 years later
The City of Tampa is hosting a ceremony on Thursday honoring the 65th anniversary of the historic Woolworth lunch counter sit ...
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A salute to Tampa's Woolworth lunch counter sit-in on its 65th anniversary
The one at Tampa’s F.W. Woolworth store started on Feb. 29, 1960. It was led, in part, by Clarence Fort, who was the NAACP ...
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Woolworth building reflects civil rights fight
mlabella@eagletribune.com Jun 3, 2014 Jun 3, 2014 HAVERHILL — For years, the chrome-backed swiveling stools and lunch counter inside the downtown Woolworth building gathered dust as the roof of ...
Remembering the Tampa lunch counter sit-ins | Column
Sixty-five years ago, a group of courageous young African American students in Tampa embarked on a journey that would forever ...
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The Black Students Who Wouldn't Leave the Lunch Counter
Which they did, taking four seats late that day at the whites-only lunch counter of Greensboro's downtown Woolworth's store and touching off what would come to be called the sit-in movement across ...