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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store—now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum —in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2] .
Sit-in movement. Part of the Civil Rights Movement. Student sit-in at Woolworth in Durham, North Carolina on February 10, 1960. Date. February 1, 1960 – 1964. Location. United States. Caused by. Racial segregation in public accommodations.
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Feb 4, 2010 · The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro,...
By Sascha Cohen. February 2, 2015 11:00 AM EST. I t was Feb. 1, 1960, when four black students sat down at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and ordered coffee. As TIME reported ...
Feb 1, 2008 · The Woolworth Sit-In That Launched a Movement Franklin McCain, one of the college students who sat at a whites-only Woolworth lunch counter to protest segregation in 1960, talks with...
- Michele Norris
Exhibitions. Greensboro Lunch Counter. On View 2 West Wallace H. Coulter Unity Square. Racial segregation was still legal in the United States on February 1, 1960, when four African American college students sat down at this Woolworth counter in Greensboro, North Carolina.
The Greensboro sit-in catalyzed a wave of nonviolent protest against private-sector segregation in the United States. On February 1, 1960, four black students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store.
