11. After much resistance, Apolo was off, leaving behind the edgy counterculture of Seattle for the local lunch counters of serene Lake Placid. 12. But here in the small towns of eastern Carolina, around local lunch counters and in main street shops, the reviews were decidedly mixed. 13. But tennis has proved to be more resistant to marches and protest than have lunch counters and public accommodations. 14. Eight black college students integrated lunch counters and risked their lives as Freedom Riders. 15. Ed Brown organized to win political and economic power for blacks and went to jail for desegregating lunch counters. 16. Even during the Depression, and especially after World War II, mom-and-pop hamburger joints, lunch counters and drive-ins sprang up everywhere. 17. Even more powerful is a reconstruction of a lunch counter, where gray statues of protesters sit in front of video screens showing footage of an actual sit-in. 18. For years, jockeys and trainers ate at the lunch counter and bought medicines for their horses there. 19. Four young African-American men quietly protested segregation, and ignited a months-long boycott that led to desegregation of Woolworth lunch counters. 20. Four years ago, anyone looking for a cup of coffee headed to one of the half dozen lunch counters or delicatessens across the street from Princeton University. |