William Tyson Sr. and Charlie Bess used to be co-workers back during the days of Woolworth. “I started working like in July of 1960, and I worked with Charles until Charles left and went to ...
Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the Civil Rights Movement met again Friday for the first time since the early 1960s. Two men who worked at F.W. Woolworth together during the ...
In the famous photograph, four Black college freshmen occupy the segregated Woolworth lunch counter in ... for his role in the Greensboro sit-ins of 1960. He was only 22 then, not much older ...
The sit-ins and demonstrations continued until Woolworths integrated the counter in July of 1960.