Lunch Counter from Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's now at Smithsonian Institution

A lunch counter is a small restaurant, much like a diner, where the patron sits on a stool on one side of the bar and the server serves from the other side of the bar, where the kitchen is. The F W Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's) was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores The Smithsonian Institution (smɪθsoʊnɪən is an educational and research institute and associated Museum complex administered and funded by the Government of A restaurant is a retail establishment that serves prepared Food to Customers. A diner is a prefabricated Restaurant building characteristic of North America, especially on Long Island; in New York City; in A bar is the counter at which drinks are mixed by a Bartender, mainly in Hotels Taverns and pubs. For the Banana Yashimoto novel see Kitchen (novel A kitchen, is a room or part of a room (sometimes called "kitchen As the name suggests, they were most widely used for the lunch meal. Luncheon, commonly abbreviated to lunch, is a midday Meal. In English-speaking countries during the eighteenth century what was originally called " Lunch counters were often found in five and dime stores, like Woolworths, S. H. Kress, H.L. Green, McLellan's or McCrory's. A variety store or price-point retailer is a Retail store that sells inexpensive items usually with a single Price point for all items in the The F W Woolworth Company (often referred to as Woolworth's) was a retail company that was one of the original American five-and-dime stores S H Kress & Co was the trading name of a chain of " Five and dime " retail Department stores in the United States, which operated from 1896 McLellan Stores were a 20th-century chain of Five and dime stores in the United States. JG McCrory's or McCrory Stores was a chain of Five and dime stores in the United States based in York Pennsylvania.

Integrating lunch counters in the US South was a major accomplishment of the United States civil rights movement of the 1960s, using sit-ins. A lunch counter is a small Restaurant, much like a Diner, where the patron sits on a stool on one side of the bar and the server serves from the other The United States of America —commonly referred to as the See also Protests of 1968 Historically the civil rights movement was a concentrated period of time around the world of approximately twenty years (1960-1980 in The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more persons nonviolently occupying an area for a Protest, often to promote political social These involved minorities and their supporters sitting at the lunch counter in areas designated for whites-only, demanding service.