Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A counter or long elevated table in an eating-house or other house of entertainment, at which persons sit on high stools or stand while taking a lunch: also, colloquially, a standee.
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Examples
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Associated Press Mr. Shuttlesworth tried to enroll his kids in a segregated school, led lunch-counter sit-ins and organized the Selma-to-Montgomery march of 1965.
Alabama Pastor Relished Fight Against Segregation Stephen Miller 2011
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In 1958, in his home town of Wichita, he led what many historians consider the nation's first lunch-counter sit-in protest.
Scholar Ronald W. Walters led what is considered to be the first lunch-counter sit-in 2010
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A prominent Democrat is among the honorees — Rep. John Lewis of Georgia, who helped organize the first lunch-counter sit-in in 1959 and the Selma-to-Montgomery march for voting rights in 1965, where he was beaten.
Obama Names Buffett, Merkel as Medal of Freedom Recipients Laura Meckler 2010
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In 1960, when presidential candidate John F. Kennedy offered to intercede for King, who was in jail for participating in a lunch-counter sit-in, many black voters deserted the little that remained of Lincoln's Republican Party.
Saul Friedman: A Retrospective On the Tea Baggers' Fourth of July 2010
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His only dispute is with desegregation of the private sector -- the local merchants and lunch-counter operators whose speech rights were apparently encroached on by an overzealous federal government.
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He closed his Parisian three-star and took a Garbo-esque retreat from the limelight a quarter-century ago, reopening in Paris in 2003 with his lunch-counter format Atelier.
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Some of Mr. Kaplan's strongest chapters deal with the evolution of Dr. King and the man who seemed to some his evil twin, Malcolm X, the Black Muslim apostate, and the civil-rights rebellion that gained momentum after the first lunch-counter sit-in in Greensboro, N.C., a month into the 1960s.
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When not documenting lunch-counter sit-ins, however, he photographed the balance of Greensboro citizens in more prosaic settings and circumstances.
Shutterbug Friday #3: John G. Moebes and the Rest of the Story 2009
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When not documenting lunch-counter sit-ins, however, he photographed the balance of Greensboro citizens in more prosaic settings and circumstances.
Archive 2009-09-01 2009
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Back then, she was boycotting Woolworths in Chicago for its lunch-counter segregation in the South.
Virginia Gilbert: Oil-Free President Network Politics, Street Corner St Louis 2008
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