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Alexandria Library sit-in
Black people were not permitted in the Alexandria Library in Alexandria, VA even though taxes paid by everyone in the community funded it. Samuel Tucker had tried for years to petition equal access to the libraries. Five black men politely requested a library card and the librarian denied them. Each man walked to a shelf grabbed a book and sat down. -
Chicago Coffee Shop
Members of the University of Chicago community, were inspired by the teachings of Gandhi, This was a group of black and white people.. They founded the Committee of Racial Equality. After a meeting, they went to the Jack Spratt Coffee House. The staff refused to serve the black members of the committee. The group decided to use this encounter to start a protest. -
Read's Sit In in Baltimore
A group of student activists from Morgan State and CORE staged a “sit-in” at the Read’s central Howard and Lexington location at the same time another group of Morgan State students held a week-long demonstration at the nearby Read’s in Northwood Shopping Center. -
Royal Ice Cream Parlor Sit-In
Rev. Moore led seven attendees from his Sunday session at Ashbury United into the segregated Royal Ice Cream Parlor. They sat in the section reserved for white patrons, and asked to be served. The owner asked them to move to the non-white section or leave and they refused. The police were called. The group was trespassed and fined. -
Dockum Drug Store sit-in
Ron Walters, president of the local NAACP Youth Council, organized the Wichita protest together with his nineteen-year-old cousin Carol Parks-Hahn who was the treasurer of the council and daughter of local NAACP secretary. Ten students entered Dockum one by one, until all seats at the lunch counter were taken, seeking to place orders. One of the students ordered a coke from a waitress, who served it but then pulled it back when she realized that "store policy was not to serve black people''. -
Katz Drug Store sit-in
Clara Luper and her students sat down at the counter of the Katz Drug Store and ordered food and drinks. They were refused service, but they stayed at the counter for hours while whites kicked them, punched them, spat at them, and poured things on them. They returned for two more days; on the third day of their protest, one of the employees served them their food, ending segregation in the restaurant. -
Miami Sit Ins
CORE chose Miami, Florida for the site of their Interracial Action Institute. CORE leaders and students also began sit-ins at Jackson’s-Byron’s and Grant’s Department Stores’ lunch counters. The management at Grant’s Department Store chose to close rather than serve African Americans. The Jackson’s-Byron’s representative informed CORE that the lunch counters would be desegregated beginning September 21. -
Greensboro Sit In's
Four freshmen from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensboro, NC decided to integrate the lunch counter at local F.W. Woolworth store. They entered the store and ordered a meal at the counter. They were refused service and sat until the store closed. The next day students kept showing up. This prompted a movement for Sit-In's nationwide.