Kamala Harris sitting where the civil rights movement began.

[demmiblue]

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[Budi]

1. K & R that would be an histotically emotional moment never to be forgotten

WOW. There's a lot to take in, for VP Harris.

[intheflow]

2. Well, I'd say this was a late-comer to the Civil Rights Movement.

The lunch counter sit-ins started in 1960. The Montgomery bus boycott was 1955, and in the 1940s President Roosevelt desegregated war production jobs under pressure of a large march on Washington by Blacks excluded from the booming war economy.

Still an amazing moment in US history, and a fantastic place for Harris to be in this day and age.

[demmiblue]

3. True.

I usually post the text of the Twitter posts I post; I should have posted a better OP title. Thank you.

The pic reminds me of when President Obama visited the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan and sat in the Rosa Parks bus:



Pete Souza is a masterful photographer.

[Politicub]

5. That picture is iconic. I remember when it was published.

It's amazing how images like that can stick with us.

[struggle4progress]

8. Royal Ice Cream Sit-In 1957

... On June 23, 1957, Rev. Douglas Moore, pastor of Asbury Temple Methodist Church, and six others assembled at the church to plan the protest. The young African Americans moved over to Royal Ice Cream and took up booths. When they refused to budge, the manager called the police who charged them with trespassing. Newspaper coverage in the Durham-Raleigh area was mixed. The Durham papers printed the story on the front-page the next day but it was buried inside the Raleigh News and Observer; The Carolinian, an African American newspaper, placed it on the front page ...

https://www.ncpedia.org/royal-ice-cream-sit-in

[struggle4progress]

9. Carolina Times Story on Pauli Murray Arrest 1940

... Murray, who had lost a battle to enroll in the University of North Carolina in 1938, was living in New York at the time and was returning home to recover from an illness. She and Adelene McBean were arrested for their refusal to move to the back of the bus when asked by the driver. This was fourteen years before a similar incident in Montgomery, Alabama launched a nationwide movement, and just one of many occasions on which Pauli Murray fought against injustice ...

https://www.digitalnc.org/blog/carolina-times-story-pauli-murray-arrest-1940/

[intheflow]

14. These are great.

I'd also add Elizabeth Jennings Graham, who, in 1854, refused to give up her streetcar seat in NYC.

My first instinct was to go back to Cato and the Steno Rebellion of 1739, but I figured most white people think the Civil Rights movement came in with King and the Freedom Riders.

[electric_blue68]

4. Wow. Poignant..

On one of my DC visits I went to see the (then) recently installed part of the original Woolworths' seating section
at the National Museum of American History.
I could feel History nearly tingling on my skin. Very moving.

[StarfishSaver]

6. The Civil Rights Movement didn't begin there

But the location is historic and iconic and these pictures are wonderful!

[SergeStorms]

7. I thought the original counter...

was in the Smithsonian? I could be wrong. It happened one other time during the Johnson administration.

[Thtwudbeme]

12. It is. The original recognizable feature I found in the museum

is the staircase.

I went to that Woolworth's as a child.

[SergeStorms]

13. So I wasn't wrong.

Two times in one lifetime would have been more than I could bear.

I'm glad it's in the Smithsonian where it belongs. Thanks for the info.

[Lucinda]

10. ❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[Thtwudbeme]

11. I used to eat at that lunch counter as a child- (and bought my goldfish there)

My parents graduated from colleges in Greensboro, and were living there at that time.

Someone upthread mentioned that it's not the original counter- and that is true. To me, the most "normal, recognizable" original feature of the Woolworth's is the staircase.