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irisblue

(37,288 posts) Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:42 PM Feb 1

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Woolworth Sit in, this date 1960

Link to tweet

https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/6-legacy/freedom-struggle-2.html#:~:text=On%20February%201%2C%201960%2C%20four,and%20politely%20asked%20for%20service.

Crossposting to American History forum as well

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Woolworth Sit in, this date 1960 (Original Post) irisblue Feb 1 OP

Can you please to, NC too? littlemissmartypants Feb 1 #1

Sure. irisblue Feb 1 #3

TY ❤️ 😊 littlemissmartypants Feb 1 #4

More from the twitter account irisblue Feb 1 #2

I got to see part of this lunch counter after a portion of it was donated to The Smithsonian.... electric_blue68 Saturday #5

littlemissmartypants

(32,806 posts)

1. Can you please to, NC too?

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Feb 1, 2026, 02:27 PM

Feb 1

irisblue

(37,288 posts)

3. Sure.

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #1)

Sun Feb 1, 2026, 02:29 PM

Feb 1

littlemissmartypants

(32,806 posts)

4. TY ❤️ 😊

Reply to irisblue (Reply #3)

Sun Feb 1, 2026, 02:38 PM

Feb 1

irisblue

(37,288 posts)

2. More from the twitter account

Reply to irisblue (Original post)

Sun Feb 1, 2026, 02:28 PM

Feb 1

Link to tweet

If you are on Twitter, it is a good follow, they are infrequently on bluesky

electric_blue68

(26,693 posts)

5. I got to see part of this lunch counter after a portion of it was donated to The Smithsonian....

Reply to irisblue (Reply #2)

Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:03 PM

Saturday

(The Museum of American History, DC)
That Woolworth's closed in 1993 so The Smithsonian went into talks to acquire a portion of it.

I saw it a year or so later. Oh, I could feel the currents of History wafting around me!

I didn't know that they'd been able to buy items at a desegragated counter in the same store a little while before. Wow!

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