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Before the Ryan Budget, there was the Tea Party, a movement that launched the careers of politicians like Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY), who’ve argued that a wide range of laws from the ban on child labor to the prohibition on whites-only lunch counters are unconstitutional.
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Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
After spending 26 years at the iconic Miami Beach restaurant, which opened as a small lunch counter in 1913 and grew into one of Miami’s most famous culinary landmarks, Bienvenu hadn’t envisioned going anywhere else.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Nash and the others would soon put Lawson's lessons into practice, organizing lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
In Jim Crow Tampa, Black patrons could shop at retailers like Woolworth but were barred from grabbing a bite at lunch counters.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
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Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025
After spending 26 years at the iconic Miami Beach restaurant, which opened as a small lunch counter in 1913 and grew into one of Miami’s most famous culinary landmarks, Bienvenu hadn’t envisioned going anywhere else.
—Connie Ogle, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2025
Nash and the others would soon put Lawson's lessons into practice, organizing lunch counter sit-ins in Nashville.
—Keith Sharon, The Tennessean, 10 June 2024
In Jim Crow Tampa, Black patrons could shop at retailers like Woolworth but were barred from grabbing a bite at lunch counters.
—Kathryn Varn, Axios, 27 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for lunch counter
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“Lunch counter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunch%20counter. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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