Despite controversy, the Woolworth’s lunch counter exhibit at NMAAHC remains on display, securing a key piece of Civil Rights ...

Claims about the iconic Greensboro lunch counter being removed sparked outrage, revealing deep anxieties about preserving Black history — especially amid recent efforts to diminish it.

GREENSBORO, N.C. — Right now, a report is out claiming that a portion of the historic F.W. Woolworth lunch counter from the ...

The lunch counter is famous for its role in the civil rights movement. In 1960, four N.C. A&T freshmen sparked a national ...

Smithsonian confirms the 1960 Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in display will remain at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.

A monument is being made in her honor to commemorate the Katz Drug Store sit-in, which was one of the first lunch counter sit ...

The institution denied reports that objects related to the Civil Rights Movement will be removed from two museums amid ...

On Thursday, the news outlet BlackPressUSA published a report that an exhibit from a historic moment in the Civil Rights Movement, Greensboro’s F.W. Woolworth Company lunch counter, fell victim ...

Officials at the Smithsonian forced to quash stories about removing civil rights artifacts because they were in line with ...

The Civil Rights Movement was active from the mid ... It was illegal for a Black person to sit at the White lunch counter. To protest this law, African-Americans sat at the Whites-only lunch ...

SI explained that in a statment it released Monday. The Smithsonian also refuted claims in a report by Black Press USA, which claimed a Woolworth’s lunch counter from North Carolina — a central symbol ...