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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

Manuguid also came to the lunch counter for the first time in 2010.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 7, 2023

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

Kress & Company department store in Hattiesburg and sat down at the lunch counter together.

From New York Times • Nov. 28, 2022

I hadn’t seen at all what Meryl Lee was doing on Valentine’s Day, while we were sipping Cokes at the lunch counter at Woolworth’s.

From "The Wednesday Wars" by Gary D. Schmidt




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