The Object of History | Behind the Scenes with the Curators of the National Museum of American History

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  Support Southern Students: SNCC pins

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  A Counter Becomes History

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  How it Originated: Joseph McNeil's Story, Part II

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  Why was Greensboro the locale for this important sit-in?

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  Is the lunch counter as it was used in 1960?

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  What are some of the challenges for a curator displaying the lunch counter?

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  Are there things about the lunch counter that a visitor to the museum might not see or understand when they encounter the object?

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  How has the museum displayed the lunch counter?

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  How did the Woolworth's lunch counter become part of NMAH's collections?

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  What was the impact of the sit-ins?

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  What is the early twenty-first century equivalent of the mid-twentieth-century lunch counter?

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  Why is this lunch counter special?

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