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At Kitty’s Cafe in midtown Kansas City, with just two chairs at a small lunch counter, that wisdom holds true.
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Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025
Golden was reared on jazz and experimental theater by her parents, who ran a lunch counter in Brooklyn.
—Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
Their idea: If a white person of influence took a Black person to a segregated lunch counter, the restaurant would not want to say no to the white person.
—Damenica Ellis
july 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 July 2025
As a public institution, the lunch counter, devoid of tricky reservations and élite tables, represents a certain idea of equality.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
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Kansas City Star, 25 July 2025
Golden was reared on jazz and experimental theater by her parents, who ran a lunch counter in Brooklyn.
—Jeff Gage, Rolling Stone, 20 May 2025
Their idea: If a white person of influence took a Black person to a segregated lunch counter, the restaurant would not want to say no to the white person.
—Damenica Ellis
july 25, Charlotte Observer, 25 July 2025
As a public institution, the lunch counter, devoid of tricky reservations and élite tables, represents a certain idea of equality.
—Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 21 July 2025
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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