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Zachary Huerta walks behind the lunch counter at recess to take another chocolate milk.
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Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
She was born the same day 45 years after McNeil and three A&T classmates sparked the Civil Rights Movement with their lunch counter protest at an F.W. Woolworth in downtown Greensboro.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The landlord was the university, so the couple applied for the lease, vowing to open a lunch counter, support local farmers, employ students, and change up the menu weekly.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2025
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Matthew Shen Goodman, Harpers Magazine, 19 Sep. 2025
She was born the same day 45 years after McNeil and three A&T classmates sparked the Civil Rights Movement with their lunch counter protest at an F.W. Woolworth in downtown Greensboro.
—Charlotte Observer, 12 Sep. 2025
In the daytime, the cocktail bar is filled with light from floor-to-ceiling windows commanding a view of 5th Avenue and the historic Woolworth building, where, as a student, John Lewis led lunch counter sit-ins.
—Mackensy Lunsford, The Tennessean, 21 Aug. 2025
The landlord was the university, so the couple applied for the lease, vowing to open a lunch counter, support local farmers, employ students, and change up the menu weekly.
—Anne Byrn, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2025
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 4 Oct. 2025.
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