Definition of lunch counter
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: a long counter at which lunches are sold
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: luncheonette
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Taking a seat at a whites-only lunch counter: Ralph, Martin and Coretta (Laquita Mitchell).
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From there, the protests moved to Canal Street and included lunch counter sit-ins in protest of segregation laws.
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In 1963, African-Americans were still not allowed to sit at lunch counters in the South.
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Portland has its own thing going, with hotcake houses, lunch counters, egg-slinging dives and dozens upon dozens of breakfast and brunch spots.
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On a frigid day in February, four black students entered a department store in Greensboro, N.C., sat down at a lunch counter and expected to go hungry.
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That day in historic Greensboro, where nearly 29 years before students staged a sit-in of Woolworth lunch counters, Bush gave the commencement address.
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On a frigid day in February, four black students entered a department store in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat down at a lunch counter and expected to go hungry.
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Desegregation moved past lunch counters into affluent white universities.
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First Known Use of lunch counter
1869
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Definition of lunch counter for English Language Learners
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: a long counter at which lunches are sold
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