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  1. Mar 28, 2024 · The sit-in movement was a nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights era that began in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960. The sit-in, an act of civil disobedience, aroused sympathy among moderates and uninvolved individuals. African Americans (later joined by white activists) would go to segregated lunch counters.

  2. Jul 28, 2020 · The four men who were denied service at a Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina, pose in front of the store on February 1, 1990. From left to right: Jibreel Khazan (formerly Ezell Blair ...

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  4. Although many of the student sit-in protesters were affiliated with National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) youth groups, the new student movement offered an implicit challenge to the litigation strategy of the nation’s oldest civil rights group. NAACP leaders, for their part, gave public support to the sit-ins ...

  5. The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960, led by students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute (A&T). [1] The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights ...

    • February 1, 1960 – 1964
  6. Feb 4, 2010 · Bettmann Archive/Getty Images. 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 ...

  7. Summary. One of the most significant protest campaigns of the civil rights era, the lunch counter sit-in movement began on February 1, 1960 when four young African American men sat down at the whites-only lunch counter of the Woolworth store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Refused service, the four college students sat quietly until the store ...

  8. On February 1, 1960, four young African American students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University took seats at a "whites-only" lunch counter at a Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their simple yet profound act of civil disobedience ignited a spark that would help fuel the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the deeply entrenched system of segregation in ...

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