Examples of lunch counter in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Perhaps one of the most notable is the Greensboro Four: four students from the North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NCAT) who staged a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. — Airielle Lowe, CNN, 31 May 2022 Civil rights activists 59 years ago photographed staging a sit-in to protest segregation at Woolworth's lunch counter in Jackson, Mississippi. — Tori B. Powell, CBS News, 28 May 2022 Since their debut in 1944, this lunch counter and grocery store crossover has been a staple of Galveston’s culinary scene. — Adrianne Reece, Chron, 12 May 2022 The restaurant’s named for the pioneering businessman who ran a cigar shop and lunch counter in the same space many years ago. — Leslie Kelly, Forbes, 24 Apr. 2022 On Thursday morning, the first person at the lunch counter ordered 30 sandwiches. — Washington Post, 18 Dec. 2021 Sitting at a lunch counter, Tércia is trying to ignore the ranting of a homeless man behind her. — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Jan. 2022 Murray also spearheaded an effort to desegregate restaurants in Washington, D.C., in 1943 – 17 years before the Woolworth lunch counter sit-in. — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 1 Oct. 2021 In Bakersfield: Architectural studio Page & Turnbull is working on resuscitating the last Woolworth lunch counter. — Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2022 See More

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