abc7NY

Joseph McNeil, who helped spark a protest movement at a Greensboro lunch counter, dies at 83

GREENSBORO, N.C. -- Joseph McNeil, one of four North Carolina college students whose occupation of a racially segregated Woolworth's lunch counter 65 years ago helped spark nonviolent civil rights sit ...
WRAL

65 years ago, four Black students sat at 'all-white' Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Feb. 1, 2025, marked 65 years since four Black college students sat at an all-white lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro. Their protest for civil and human rights eventually ...
Berkshire Eagle

While sit-ins raged in the South in 1960, Pittsfield's integrated Woolworth store drew only a brief picket

It is a plus to hear from baby boomers when a story brings back memories from their youthful days. Sometimes these memories are bittersweet. Following my Berkshire Eagle story on Pittsfield’s ...
WFMY News2

Woolworth Reunion: Former employees reconnect 60 years after historic sit-Ins

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The Woolworth Lunch Counter holds an abundance of hallowed history, not just for Greensboro, but for all of Civil Rights. “Working the dish room was tough, it was tough work, Friday ...
Tampa Bay Times

Remembering the Tampa lunch counter sit-ins | Column

They are a legacy of peaceful protest. Black high school and college students participate in a sit-in at a Woolworth's lunch counter in Tampa on Feb. 29, 1960. [ Times (1960) ] The Tampa Bay Times ...