Word: watertown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Watertown, N.Y., students from nearby colleges carrying signs reading END LUNCH COUNTER DISCRIMINATION marched quietly one day last week outside the F. W. Woolworth store. Inside, Woolworth's top management and some 120 stockholders gathered tensely for the company's first annual meeting since Negro students in the South selected Woolworth lunch counters as a major testing ground in their fight for equal rights...
...Tallahassee. Brought to the meeting by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Barbara said: "I speak for the Southern students. We will fight because we are right. I've been in jail, and I'm willing to go back if necessary." The Rev. Thomas Carlisle, pastor of Watertown's Stone Street Presbyterian Church, read a petition, signed by 14 local ministers and a rabbi, urging Woolworth, which got its start in Watertown, to "pioneer" better racial relations in the South...