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Lunch counter stool, about 1950
From Woolworth's, 501 East Broad Street, Richmond
This stool comes from the Woolworth's lunch counter in Richmond, where Virginia Union University students held a sit-in on February 20, 1960 to protest segregated service. Such protests hit businesses hard. By late 1963, more than one-quarter of the city's 400 restaurants and cafes had integrated. |