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.

In 1960, four black college students, in their freshmen year, showed up to a lunch counter in North Carolina for whites only, and decided they weren't going to leave until they were served.

On Feb. 1, 1960, college students began non-violent protests at the Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., that persisted for six months and made national news. The DeLand protests came ...

America's schoolchildren are "being punished" for the financial woes of their parents. The issue is close to the heart of potential VP Tim Walz.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Feb. 1, 2025, marked 65 years since four Black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro. Their protest for civil and human rights ...

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.

They are a legacy of peaceful protest. Black high school and college students participate in a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Tampa on Feb. 29, 1960. [ Times (1960) ] The Tampa Bay Times ...

Kraft Heinz announced it removed Lunchables, its packaged lunch brand and a childhood staple for many, from the National School Lunch Program on Monday because of a lack of demand over a year ...

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 ...