lunch counter
Example Sentences
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When he got in, he worked in his brother’s restaurants—a lunch counter, then a pizzeria—to pay his tuition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026
As a youth, he organized a lunch counter sit-in to protest segregation in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas.
From Washington Times ● Apr. 5, 2023
In February of that year, Black students staged a sit-in in the white-only section of a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2022
In their vision, the lanes are lit up, the lunch counter is bustling and every time someone bowls a spare or a strike, a screen above the lane supplies a fact about civil rights history.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 7, 2022
When the students reached the lunch counter at the back of the store, they sat down at the empty stools and waited.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
