 Sales at the boycotted stores dropped by a third, leading their owners to abandon segregation policies.On Monday, July 25, 1960, after nearly $200,000 in losses ($ million in dollars), and a reduction in salary for not meeting sales goals, store manager Clarence Harris asked four black employees, Geneva Tisdale, Susie Morrison, Anetha Jones, and Charles Bess, to change out of their work clothes and order a meal at the counter.They were, quietly, the first to be served at a Woolworth lunch counter.