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Jack Spratt Diner
27 people lead by James Farmer Jr an organizer for the Fellowship for Reconciliation, sat in Jack Spratt Diner to protest it’s no services policy. They took up all of the dining area and asked to be served, the dinner refused and proceeded to call the cops. Arriving at the scene no laws were broke so no arrests could be made -
WoolsWorth Sit In
David Richmond, Ezell Blair Jr, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil sat at Woolsworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. This sit in was in protest to their segregation policies. The students were harassed to take them off of the lunch counter, but they persevered -
sit in influence grows
The first Sit in was a success as now 300 students were participating in the protests at woolsworth and other establishments. There is heavy television coverage to show the nation of these protests -
Growth in movement
By the end of March 1960, the movement had spread to 55 cities in 13 states. There were many who were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace. But, national media coverage of the sit-ins brought much attention to the civil rights movement. -
South was integrated
By the summer of 1060, restaurants across the South were being integrated. At the end of July, the Greensboro Woolworth’s quietly integrated its lunch counter. Four Black Woolworth’s employees—Geneva Tisdale, Susie Morrison, Anetha Jones and Charles Best—were the first to be served. -
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC)
The SNCC was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina, in April 1960. During the next few years, SNCC worked as one of the leading forces in the civil rights movement, organizing Freedom Rides through the South in 1961 and the historic March on Washington in 1963, where Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous “I Have a Dream” speech. SNCC worked with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to make progress of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,