The story
Four Black college students sparked the nationwide sit-in movement at this lunch counter on February 1, 1960.
Everything that was here
- 1939–1993
F.W. Woolworth Building (International Civil Rights Center & Museum)Museum
Four Black college students sparked the nationwide sit-in movement at this lunch counter on February 1, 1960.
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