Six decades later, participants of Woolworth's sit-ins reflect on legacy of movement, what got them involved, what kept them motivated and the message they still carry.

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. What ...

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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 ...

The DeLand protests came next, beginning on Feb. 9, 1960. Shortly after that, students at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee began lunch counter sit-ins.

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 eventually prompted ...

S.H. Kress & Co.'s policy of excluding African Americans from their lunch counters changed the trajectory of the civil rights discussion in Charleston. With no Black college students in the area ...

Black high school and college students participate in a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Tampa on Feb. 29, 1960. Tampa's Stageworks Theatre presents a new play detailing this event, "When ...

The menu at S&P, a new old-school luncheonette where Eisenberg's Sandwich Shop once was, is filled with Jewish classics — and sandwiches are served with a pickle, naturally.