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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]
Mulholland participated in the May 28, 1963 sit-in to protest racial segregation at the lunch counter of the Woolworth’s store in downtown Jackson. She was one of 14 activists, including fellow Tougaloo student Anne Moody, professor John Salter, and white Tougaloo chaplain Ed King. The activists were beaten, smeared with condiments, and berated.
On May 28, 1963, in Jackson, Mississippi, Gray joined white and black Tougaloo College students in a sit-in at the Woolworth's lunch counter to protest segregation. Tougaloo students included white student Joan Trumpauer and black student Anne Moody who sat at the front counter instead of at the segregated section for black citizens and ...
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Sit-ins were by far the most prominent in 1960, however, they were still a useful tactic in the civil rights movement in the years to come. In February 1961, students from Friendship Junior College in Rock Hill, South Carolina, organized a sit-in at a segregated lunch counter. The students were then arrested and refused to pay bail.
Visitors are led into the main floor of the museum where the massive lunch counter, in the original 1960 L-shaped configuration, occupies nearly the whole width and half the length of the building. Original signage from 1960 and dumbwaiters that delivered food from the upstairs kitchen are included, as is a reenactment of the sit-in on life ...
The men sat down at a lunch counter, Donaldson said, and “marched into the pages of history.” The State reporter John Monk contributed to this report This story has been updated to correct the ...
The young women and girls at Woolworth’s worked a 52-hour week, were paid 28 cents an hour and barely cleared $14 ($296 adjusted for inflation) after six days — about half of the wage of ...