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F. W. Woolworth Company controversies

Controversies tied to this brand in public sources. A listing is not a finding of fault.

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  1. 1960

    Lunch-counter segregation and civil-rights sit-ins

    Segregated Woolworth lunch counters in the American South became targets of nonviolent sit-ins. The Greensboro protest beginning on February 1, 1960, and later demonstrations in Nashville and other cities helped make retail desegregation a national civil-rights issue.

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