woolworth's closed. the next day, more students came, and over the ensuing days, females came as well as males, blacks as well as whites came, and soon you had pretty much a full sit-in. this is what really gives us the term, and people were advocating for rights to be served. well, it took months to be resolved. the elders in the african-american community had really not seen or taken that type of action before. i think they were inspired over time by the youth who really were faced with the gross injustice. by the summer time, dwight eisenhower was president, weighed in, and said, yes, should be served. people weighed in, and woolworth realized in light of boycotts and other department stores, similar department stores facing similar boycotts through the south. they felt it was time to integrate the lunch counter, and so on the first day they opened up, they served the african-american employees, woolworth employees, and the next day, they opened up to the public. that's where students began, i think,

woolworth's closed. the next day, more students came, and over the ensuing days, females came as well as males, blacks as well as whites came, and soon you had pretty much a full sit-in. this is what really gives us the term, and people were advocating for rights to be served. well, it took months to be resolved. the elders in the african-american community had really not seen or taken that type of action before. i think they were inspired over time by the youth who really were faced with the gross injustice. by the summer time, dwight eisenhower was president, weighed in, and said, yes, should be served. people weighed in, and woolworth realized in light of boycotts and other department stores, similar department stores facing similar boycotts through the south. they felt it was time to integrate the lunch counter, and so on the first day they opened up, they served the african-american employees, woolworth employees, and the next day, they opened up to the public. that's where students began, i think,

o'brien about his new book "we shall not be moved: the jackson woolworth's sit-in and the movement it inspired". please tell us how you got into this project. >> i got into this project when i saw this photograph at the martin luther king center in atlanta in 1992 and realized this was an iconic representation and i knew the woman at the center of that photograph. i had met her 20 years before in arlington, va. when i was a playground director. and in the context of all of those iconic civil rights at the king center. a story that needs to be told, so i decided at that moment, and find out more about him. >> do you recognize her in the picture when you first saw it would did she talk to you about this experience? >> i recognized her because her children -- my mom is in a famous photograph. i didn't understand how significant that photo was until i saw it in context. >> what did you learn from her about the civil rights movement you hadn't known before? >> what was interesting is she was the southern white woman who risked it all to feed her family, her involvement in the civil rights

dressed up as regular people in the market, in the woolworth's and all of a sudden started a flash moba song written for nelson mandela as a tribute. >> awesome. >> very nice. >>> this is great. san francisco, remember bat kid, not long ago. everybody knows about bat kid -- the boy with leukemia that is in remission. the whole city coming out and making him the crime-fighting superhero he always wanted to be. the city did an amazing job and the kid is world famous now. now there is a new thing that popped up. nobody knows who paid for it but the director of make a wish tweeted a photo of it and said wow, look at this. thank you for saving the city. hing that popped up. nobody knows who paid for it but the director of make a wish tweeted a photo of it and said wow, look at this. >>> this morning on "world >>> this morning on "world news now," doing battle with the worst of winter. this season is hitting hard. cold and snow is hammering a large chunk of the nation and more is on the way. >>> but this season will be a bright one for someone out there who picks the lucky numbers in tomorro

a sit-in and were up against tough odds with cheap prices and more than 2,000 stores, woolworth's was the retail empire of its time. you can call it the walmart of the early 20th century. but the sales girls soon won better wages and union representation not only for themselv themselves, but all 40 woolworth stores across the city. by the beginning of the next decade, the labor movement had become so strong that strikes like the one at woolworth's were an every day occurrence. the president at the time knew that work stoppages could threaten the nation's capacity to manufacture all the uniforms and goods and weapons they would need to win the war. so he stepped up labor laws, he limited workers' ability to strike and forced business to settle their labor disputes amicableably. for most part, it worked. business and labor worked things out for the sake of the war effort. there was one ceo who would not play ball. his name was sewell avery, a staunch conservative who hated not only unions, but also fdr's entire new deal. sewell avery ran the company called montgomery ward, a retail gian

magazines poems pomander balls of fox's tail tied with a red ribbon brooch i bought her it from woolworths that spelled mother and malakai a photograph of on mckenna saint joan standing between the glass doors i love to look at her possessions mirrors reflecting me into infinity i was a lonely child my brother tony and i were never very close neither is children nor as adults but i was tightly bound to him we were forced to be together because we were on our own really although i knew he loved me i always felt that tony had it in for me a bed and that a year older than i he was always having to fight for what he had. we were in the middle of the irish countryside in county call way in the west of ireland and we didn't see many other kids we were tutored and my life was mostly fantasy wishing that i were catholic so that i could have a holy communion and wearing my mother's tutus on the front lawn hoping a husband would come along so that i might marry him i also spent quite a lot of time in front of the bathroom mirror nearby there was a stack of books my favorites with the death of mina l

. >> my parents couldn't take me to have a hamburger at the woolworth's lunch counter but they had me i could be the president of the united states if i want to be. >> sometimes you have to hide it close to your heart so the people around you don't tear it apart. so have your dream, hold onto it. >> when a person looks at you and says you can't because of the color of your skin, well, i can't relate to that because i have never seen any color anyway. ♪ we have overcome ♪ we have overcome ♪ we have overcome today ♪ deep in my heart ♪ we do believe that we have overcome today ♪ >> well, it was a great moment. a really great night. what a night. we have more awards to come. so stay with us. >>> the revvies return with michelle obama and the award for best politician in a foreign comedy. the 2013 revvies will be right back. >>> and a special treat. our "politicsnation" digital fans are weighing in. our online community picks their biggest story of the year. it's the "politicsnation" viewers choice award. that's next. [ mom ] because we have people over so often, we've learned how to stret

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