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lunch counter



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When he got in, he worked in his brother’s restaurants—a lunch counter, then a pizzeria—to pay his tuition.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 20, 2026

French food isn’t about to be knocked from its perch: The No. 1 lunch counter is still the local bakery.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2023

As a youth, he organized a lunch counter sit-in to protest segregation in his hometown of Wichita, Kansas.

From Washington Times • Apr. 5, 2023

In February of that year, Black students staged a sit-in in the white-only section of a Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 26, 2022

Mr. Stone thought it was important to have “local color,” so I convinced him to build Mrs. Soldano a lunch counter where she could serve authentic Cuban cuisine to the tourists.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm




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