The Fifth Avenue Historic District contains a collection of buildings constructed from 1890 to 1930. Businesses established the area’s reputation as the primary shopping district, which solidified when the historic Arcade opened in 1903. The five-and-dime F. W. Woolworth Company opened in Nashville in 1913. When the county was still under the Jim Crow laws of the 1980s, the store opened lunch counters in 1925. In the early months of 1960, college students, primarily from local historically black universities like Fisk University, Tennessee A&I, and American Baptist College, held the historic Nashville sit-ins. Students sat at segregated lunch counters at Woolworth's, McClellan, and Kress in order to pose a challenge to the oppressive system. In 2017 Tom Morales opened the restaurant Woolworth's on 5th to commemorate the Civil Rights history that occurred at the original Woolworth's.
Woolworth's
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The Fifth Avenue Historic District contains a collection of buildings constructed from 1890 to 1930. Businesses established the area’s reputation as the primary shopping district, which solidified when the historic Arcade opened in 1903. The five-and-dime F. W. Woolworth Company opened in Nashville in 1913. When the county was still under the Jim Crow laws of the 1980s, the store opened lunch counters in 1925. In the early months of 1960, college students, primarily from local historically black universities like Fisk University, Tennessee A&I, and American Baptist College, held the historic Nashville sit-ins. Students sat at segregated lunch counters at Woolworth's, McClellan, and Kress in order to pose a challenge to the oppressive system. In 2017 Tom Morales opened the restaurant Woolworth's on 5th to commemorate the Civil Rights history that occurred at the original Woolworth's.