I am on a sidewalk in downtown Providence looking at a reminder of how history often turns on the mundane. There they are, on exhibit through a window of the RISD Museum, four stools. The Greensboro ...

*Despite earlier reports of its removal, the historic Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit remains proudly on display at the National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC), also known ...

Charlie Brown sat and recalled days gone by and days to come recently at the old Woolworth’s lunch counter on State Street. Only thing. Woolworth’s is long gone. So too are many of Brown’s buddies, ...

The "Greensboro Four" held a sit-in against segregation at the diner counter in 1960 Vice President Kamala Harris made a surprise stop during her trip to North Carolina on Monday to recognize a ...

2010-02-20T13:33:32-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c39/20100220141641003.jpgClip from Woolworth Lunch Counter Sit-In 50th Anniversary Clip from Woolworth Lunch ...

When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W. Woolworth Company was already known for innovation. Founded by Frank Winfield Woolworth in New York in 1879, the ...

I can remember well sitting next to my grandfather at the Woolworth’s lunch counter as a young girl in South Georgia, me with a Coca-Cola or a milkshake and some kind of “five and dime” treasure I had ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — February 1 is just around the corner. On that day, 59 years ago, Greensboro was marked in the history books forever as the place where the sit-in movement began, after four brave ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — February 1 is just around the corner. On that day, 59 years ago, Greensboro was marked in the history books forever as the place where the sit-in movement began, after four brave ...