EVENT INFORMATION

25
Juli
1960

The Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter desegregates

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📅 25 Juli 1960 📍 Verenigde Staten

The Woolworth lunch counter began serving Black customers after months of sit-ins and economic pressure. A local change in business practice resulted from sustained collective action. The campaign’s outcome demonstrates how organized resistance can force institutions to abandon exclusion, without assuming that access at one counter eliminates racism across society.

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Greensboro sit-in movement

Woolworth