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Wednesday, September 21, 2011

While I was gone...

Bryan installed these Woolworth's stools at our breakfast bar.
If you read the blog about Walnut, IA Antique Show, where we got them, then you may remember that there are two pink and two green stools just like this installed in the Smithsonian Museum. 
Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter
On February 1, 1960, four young African-American men, freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, entered the Greensboro Woolworth’s and sat down on stools that had, until that moment, been occupied exclusively by white customers. The four—Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil and David Richmond—asked to be served, and were refused. But they did not get up and leave. Indeed, they launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America. A section of that historic counter is now held by the National Museum of American History, where the chairman of the division of politics and reform, Harry Rubenstein, calls it “a significant part of a larger collection about participation in our political system.” The story behind it is central to the epic struggle of the civil rights movement.

Read more: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/Courage-at-the-Greensboro-Lunch-Counter.html#ixzz1Ybzstlmh

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