International Civil Rights Center & Museum

Tour the former Woolworth store where four students began the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins at its whites-only lunch counter.

134 S Elm St · Greensboro, NC

About International Civil Rights Center & Museum

The museum fills the former F.W. Woolworth store where four North Carolina A&T students sat down at the segregated lunch counter on February 1, 1960, and refused to leave. It opened exactly 50 years later, and the lunch counter stands in its original L-shaped layout. Visits run as tours, either fully staff-guided or a seated film followed by a self-guided walk through The Battlegrounds galleries. Photography is not allowed in the galleries.

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