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When its first lunch counter opened in New Albany, Indiana, around 1923, the F.W. Woolworth Company was already known for innovation.—Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025 How The Controversy Started Last week, a report from Black Press USA suggested that the Greensboro lunch counter display — a centerpiece artifact from the Civil Rights Movement — would be removed from the National Museum of American History.—Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025 The store with the old oak floor was so charming, the middle-aged writers who hung around the lunch counter ordering vegan BLTs were charming.—Hayley Krischer, People.com, 14 Apr. 2025 Before the Ryan Budget, there was the Tea Party, a movement that launched the careers of politicians like Sens. Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY), who’ve argued that a wide range of laws from the ban on child labor to the prohibition on whites-only lunch counters are unconstitutional.—Ian Millhiser, Vox, 21 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lunch counter
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