Woolworth’s dominance was challenged by a boom in discount retailers, and by 1997 the company closed its 400 remaining U.S. stores. The last operating lunch counter , in Bakersfield, California ...

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

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.

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

Brown grew up in Bolton, North Carolina, and was a student at North Carolina A&T when the first Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in started on Feb. 1, 1960.

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.

That’s because Woolworth rarely remodeled its lunch counter, Lanham said. The lunch counter closed in 1986, and the chain closed its Alamo Plaza location in 1997. Advertisement ...

Four Black college students changed the course of history with a 1960 sit-in protest at the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. On Feb. 1, 1960 four Black college students ...

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Woolworth’s dominance was challenged by a boom in discount retailers, and by 1997 the company closed its 400 remaining U.S. stores. The last operating lunch counter , in Bakersfield, California ...