1, 1960, David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Jibreel Khazan and Joseph McNeil, four Black students from N.C. A&T State University, visited the F.W. Woolworth department store’s lunch counter to ...
The students had earlier staged a sit-in at the F.W. Woolworth lunch counter at Cameron Village. George Greene, left, a Raleigh lawyer, met with some of the arrested students at the Wake County jail.
Closed in March 1995, the restaurant, complete with lunch counter, had operated in the ... decades," according to newspaper archives. "At Woolworth's, you could pick a balloon and pop it to ...
Woolworths has announced it will return to running Australia Day promotions this year and team members are "welcome to celebrate the day in-store". Last year, the supermarket giant took out full ...
SCRANTON — A partial collapse of the Coney Island Lunch building early Monday led city officials to condemn the property on Lackawanna Avenue. Crews were dispatched to 515 Lackawanna Ave.
Kern walks to physical therapy passing the former Coney Island Lunch building every week, but that was not his route on Monday. “That was really a surprise, I’m glad nobody got hurt,” said Kern.
SCRANTON, Pa. — "I think that if I was about five seconds ... What she heard was the collapse of part of the former Coney Island Lunch on Lackawanna Avenue. That restaurant closed up shop ...
sat down at the Woolworths whites-only lunch counter. The four heroes were Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, Ezell Blair Jr. (now Jibreel Khazan) and David Richmond. Their brave action hit the world ...
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