Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960, led by students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute (A&T). [1] The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights ...
Nashville Sit-ins Archived April 12, 2018, at the Wayback Machine, Tennessee4me.org maintained by the Tennessee State Museum; American Experience – Eyes on the Prize: "Ain't Scared of Your Jails (1960–1961)", pbs.org; Nashville Student Movement (1960–1964), Civil Rights Movement Archive, crmvet.org
"Sit-In: A Tactical Analysis", By Aaron Kreider – Essay based on research on student sit-ins. Almost-Forgotten History – Story of the Wichita Dockum sit-ins; Civil Rights Movement Archive ~ History, personal stories, and photos of the Freedom Movement; Sit-ins: Atlanta, Georgia, Civil Rights Digital Library.
Civil Rights protests at the time were heating up across the nation, and South Carolina. Students in Rock Hill had also been protesting that year, and in 1961, nine of them were arrested during a ...
The real problem is that we don't care to talk about what the problems are. Most people are not racists. They simply don't understand the issues.
He cut short the training period after students in Greensboro, N.C., received national media attention with a series of impromptu sit-ins that began on Feb. 1, 1960.
The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was formed in April 1960 at a conference at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina, attended by 126 student delegates from 58 sit-in centers in 12 states, from 19 northern colleges, and from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR), the National ...
The Nashville Student Movement was an organization that challenged racial segregation in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Civil Rights Movement. It was created during workshops in nonviolence taught by James Lawson at the Clark Memorial United Methodist Church. The students from this organization initiated the Nashville sit-ins in 1960.