Fifty Years Ago — The F.W. Woolworth’s Lunch Counter Sit-In

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in in Greensboro, North Carolina, and of the opening of The International Civil Rights Museum, the North Carolina Collection shares this document from its collection.

Don’t buy at these stores : Woolworth’s, McLlellan’s, Walgreen’s, Efird’s, Kress’, Hudson-Belk’s. [Raleigh, N.C.? : s.n., 196-] [Handbill advocating a boycott of certain Raleigh businesses because of their refusal to seat Blacks at their lunch counters. Signed: St. Augustine’s College, Shaw University, Ligon High School.] Cb326 D688s

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