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Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the Civil Rights Movement met again Friday for the first time since the early 1960s. IT WAS A REUNION SIX DECADES IN THE MAKING. TWO MEN WHO WORKED ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) – Hillsborough County and the City of Tampa are paying tribute to those who were brave enough to help with desegregation efforts. Thursday, county and city leaders honored them ...

Image taken during lunch counter sit-ins at the F.W. Woolworth department store in Tampa in 1960 (photo courtesy: USF Tampa Library/City of Tampa Communications) Sixty-five years ago, a group of high ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — More than 65 years later, Charles Bess is one of the few people left who can still describe what it was like to watch the A&T Four sit down at the whites-only Woolworth’s lunch ...

Participants in the historic 1960 Woolworth lunch counter sit-ins in Tampa were honored at a ceremony on Thursday. The nonviolent demonstrations, both in Tampa and elsewhere across the country, played ...

An iconic North Carolina building that played a pivotal role in the Civil Rights Movement is now officially a historic landmark. The F.W. Woolworth Company Building in Greensboro was recently ...

It is a plus to hear from baby boomers when a story brings back memories from their youthful days. Sometimes these memories are bittersweet. Following my Berkshire Eagle story on Pittsfield’s ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Right now, a report is out claiming that a portion of the historic F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from the Greensboro sit-ins would be removed from the Smithsonian's National Museum ...