lunch counter

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She started with picketing and sit-ins at those places in 1949 — a decade before the famous Greensboro, N.C., lunch counter sit-ins.

From Washington Post

The Texas Black Legislative Caucus voted last week to continue to break quorum, says Thierry, whose grandmother paid poll taxes and whose mother had milkshakes poured on her head during sit-ins at the Woolworth’s lunch counter.

From Washington Post

In the hallway, a poster depicts a 1960 sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, a nod to the city’s history as a catalyst for the civil rights movement across the South.

From New York Times

The customers at Tin Roof, the lunch counter he owns with his wife, Janice Simeon, in Kahului, are just as tempted by the peanut-butter-frosted and rainbow-sprinkled chocolate version he sells.

From New York Times

“It was wrong when it was the segregated lunch counter of Jim Crow, and it is wrong when it is the segregated classrooms of Critical Race Theory.”

From Washington Times