Woolworth Lunch Counter Video (History Channel)

Check out this video of the original Woolworth counter. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbbcjn4d1cE&feature=player_embedded  

Tuesday, July 26, 1960

F.W. Woolworth's is desegregated. 

It took 176 days of protesting. 176 days is about the time from today until your first day of 3rd grade in August.

By August 1961, more than 70,000 people had participated in sit-ins, which resulted in more than 3,000 arrests. Sit-ins at "whites only" lunch counters inspired subsequent kneel-ins at segregated churches, sleep-ins at segregated motel lobbies, swim-ins at segregated pools, wade-ins at segregated beaches, read-ins at segregated libraries, play-ins at segregated parks, and watch-ins at segregated movies.

America would never be the same.

Source: https://www-tc.pbs.org/independentlens/februaryone/images/four_pic.jpg

The Greensboro Four sitting at the Woolworth's lunch counter in 1990, drinking coffee. 

Monday, July 25, 1960

F.W. Woolworth employees Charles Bess, Mattie Long, Susie Morrison,  and Jamie Robinson are the first African-Americans to eat at the lunch counter.

The headline of The Greensboro Record read: "Lunch Counters Integrated Here".

Source: http://www.greensboro-nc.gov/ftp/Docs/library/sitins/19600725VoluntaryMoveLaunchedTodayByTwoStoresGR.pdf