Memories of Woolworths lunch counter.
 

On Saturday, September 5, 2020 at 11:25:50 AM UTC-5, jmcquown wrote:
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> > On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 01:39:35 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 >
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> >> My mom used to take me to Woolworth's on weekends and she would get me roast beef sandwiches - what a treat! I think she must have liked taking me out because I was a cheerful kid that enjoyed going with her. OTOH, these days, when I think of Woolworth's, the images are decidedly different.
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> >> https://jacksonfreepress.media.clien...Brien_t670.jpg
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> Good lord, there you go again, dsi1, dragging racism into everything.
> You said it was a treat to get a roast beef sandwich there with your
> mom. Quick switch to racist images. It gets sooooo tiring. That image
> was from the 1950's (can you even prove it's from a Woolworth's?). I'm
> pretty darn sure you weren't a black woman being taunted at a lunch
> counter by a bunch of stupid white people. You intentionally try to
> stir shit.
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> Jill
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It was indeed a sit-in at the Woolworths lunch counter in Jackson,
Mississippi, May 28, 1963. But I enjoyed eating at their lunch counter
as well but saw no sit-ins, demonstrations, or stupidity occurring.