Greensboro

Greensboro Sit-ins

By JamieB123
  • Ella Baker became involved in NAACP

    Ella Baker became involved in NAACP

    Ella joined the NAACP as a secretary in 1940
  • Freedom Rides

    Freedom Rides

    The freedom rides of 1947 inspired the Greensboro four to peacefully protest. The freedom rides were organized by the Congress for Racial Equality.
  • Emmett Till was murdered

    Emmett Till was murdered

    While vising family in Money Mississippi, 14 year old Emmett Till was murdered for allegedly whistling at a white woman. This murder inspired the Greensboro four to become peaceful demonstrators years later
  • Ella Baker helped found SCLC

    Ella Baker helped found SCLC

    Baker helped organize the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with MLK
  • Clara Luper started the first sit-ins

    Clara Luper started the first sit-ins

    History teacher, Clara Luper began sit in demonstrations in Oklahoma City

  • Baker went to Greensboro to help the student activists and founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee

  • Greensboro sit-ins began

    Greensboro sit-ins began

    A group of college students refuse to leave a woolworths lunch counter after being denied service