The life and legacy of Clara Shepard Luper will be on full display in the heart of downtown. A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, which was one of ...
Another Wichita Woolworth store, which also had a lunch counter, lasted at the Ken-Mar Shopping Center at 13th and Oliver ...
Clarence Henderson told Brevard Academy students last week America is “the greatest country in the world,” but “you have to ...
A USF professor's play depicting Tampa's historic lunch counter sit-in from the Civil Rights Movement has been revived and ...
Former Woolworth employees reunite after 60 years, reflecting on friendship, the 1960 sit-ins, and the lunch counter’s ...
Their peaceful sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter not only desegregated many local businesses but also demonstrated the power of interracial cooperation and non-violent protest.
The one at Tampa’s F.W. Woolworth store started on Feb. 29, 1960. It was led, in part, by Clarence Fort, who was the NAACP ...