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Feb 4, 2010 · The Greensboro Sit-in was a major civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young Black students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina ...
Apr 19, 2024 · The Greensboro sit-in was an act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960. Its success led to a wider sit-in movement, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, that spread throughout the South.
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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, which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
- February 1 – July 25, 1960, (5 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Feb 28, 2023 · In 1960, four Black students sat at a “whites only” lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The protest and others like it led to broad desegregation.
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Mar 28, 2024 · Kurt Hohenstein. 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.
Greensboro Sit-In. On February 1, 1960, four African-American students of North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth’s store. While sit-ins had been held elsewhere in the United States, the Greensboro sit-in catalyzed a wave of nonviolent protest ...
