The story
On September 17, 1960, four students sat down at McCrory's lunch counter on Canal Street to be served together. It was CORE's second local lunch counter sit-in, one week after the first at Woolworth's on Canal Street.
The four were Rudy Lombard of Xavier, Oretha Castle of SUNO, Cecil W. Carter Jr. of Dillard, and Sydney Goldfinch Jr. of Tulane. All four were arrested, charged, and convicted under Louisiana criminal mischief laws.
Lombard v. Louisiana was appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which overturned the arrests in a ruling covering several lunch counter cases. McCrory's closed its Canal Street store in the late 1990s, and the site is now a chain restaurant and a parking garage.
What's There Now
The site is now a popular chain restaurant and a parking garage.
Everything that was here
- 1922–1997
McCrory's (CORE Four Site)Five-and-Dime
On September 17, 1960, four students sat in at McCrory's lunch counter on Canal Street and were arrested; their case reached the U.S. Supreme Court.
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