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The Sit-in movement

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  • GREENSBORO SIT-IN

    GREENSBORO SIT-IN
    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 counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service.

  • SNCC

    SNCC
    To capitalize on the momentum of the sit-in movement, the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was founded in Raleigh, North Carolina, in April 1960.

  • SIT-INS SPREAD NATIONWIDE

    SIT-INS SPREAD NATIONWIDE
    By February 5, some 300 students had joined the protest at Woolworth’s, paralyzing the lunch counter and other local businesses.

  • GREENSBORO WOOLWORTHS

    GREENSBORO WOOLWORTHS
    The Greensboro Woolworths finally served blacks at its lunch counter on July 25, 1960, when manager Clarence Harris asked four black Woolworth’s employees—Geneva Tisdale, Susie Morrison, Anetha Jones, and Charles Best—to change out of their uniforms and into street clothes. The employees then ordered a meal at the lunch counter, becoming the first African Americans to be served at Woolworth’s.