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Six months into the protests, Woolworth integrated the lunch counter.
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Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 2026
His view was that the factory worker filling out a basketball parlay card at a local lunch counter was in some sense complicit.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Tampa lunch counter sit-in Arthenia Joyner became a prominent lawyer, and a Florida state senator.
—Martha Teichner, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
The skyway-level business ecosystem that emerged during the 1980s was one of lunch counters and copy shops and services like shoe-shiners, tailors, barbers, jewelers and others looking to be convenient errands, not weekend shopping destinations.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
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Arizona Republic, AZCentral.com, 31 Jan. 2026
His view was that the factory worker filling out a basketball parlay card at a local lunch counter was in some sense complicit.
—Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 22 Jan. 2026
Tampa lunch counter sit-in Arthenia Joyner became a prominent lawyer, and a Florida state senator.
—Martha Teichner, CBS News, 18 Jan. 2026
The skyway-level business ecosystem that emerged during the 1980s was one of lunch counters and copy shops and services like shoe-shiners, tailors, barbers, jewelers and others looking to be convenient errands, not weekend shopping destinations.
—Jared Kaufman, Twin Cities, 11 Jan. 2026
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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