1950 – 75 years ago Rochester’s newest and one of the largest retail stores, the F. W. Woolworth store, at South Broadway and Second Street SW, will be open for business on the morning of Feb. 9.

"Generations after us will be able to say that's where history was made," said Guilford County Commissioners Chair Melvin "Skip" Alston, who along with Earl Jones, then a Greensboro city ...

Remembrances are happening January 31 and February 1, marking the 65th anniversary of the Greensboro sit-ins. The building where the civil rights protest began, Woolworth's, is now a National Historic ...

Greensboro, North Carolina marked the 65th anniversary of the sit-ins at a Woolworth lunch counter that sparked a national ...

This weekend, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University will mark the 65 th Anniversary of the Woolworth Sit-Ins./ On February 1 st, 1960, four North Carolina A&T students started a ...

Saturday will mark 65 years since four Black college students (David Richmond, Frank Mccain, Ezell Blair Junior, who is now ...

George Clinton Murphy had already built one chain of dime stores (which he sold to F.W. Woolworth Co.) when he opened the first of his G.C. Murphy Co. stores in 1906 in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

who staged a sit-in at the F.W. Woolworth on North Franklin Street a year prior. More than 4,000 people attended. As for the sit-in, you can now find a historical marker at the site, which names ...

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From the site of Durham’s Black Wall Street, where Black-owned businesses thrived, to the site of the state’s oldest ...