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Six months prior to his arrival in Greensboro, four Black students from North Carolina A&T refused to leave the whites-only Woolworth lunch counter, launching a sit-in movement that soon drew national attention.
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Gibbs Knotts, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
Six months into the protests, Woolworth integrated the lunch counter.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 2026
His view was that the factory worker filling out a basketball parlay card at a local lunch counter was in some sense complicit.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Tampa lunch counter sit-in Arthenia Joyner became a prominent lawyer, and a Florida state senator.
—Martha Teichner, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
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Gibbs Knotts, Fortune, 17 Feb. 2026
Six months into the protests, Woolworth integrated the lunch counter.
—Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 2026
His view was that the factory worker filling out a basketball parlay card at a local lunch counter was in some sense complicit.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Tampa lunch counter sit-in Arthenia Joyner became a prominent lawyer, and a Florida state senator.
—Martha Teichner, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 25 Feb. 2026.
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