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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 ...
The Charleston sit-ins were a series of peaceful protests during the sit-in movement of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in Charleston, South Carolina. Unlike at other sit-ins in the South where the protestors were mainly college students, the protestors in Charleston were mainly high school students.
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, [1] which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. [2]
Benjamin Cowins during a 1961 sit-in at McCrory's lunch counter in Tallahassee A sit-in for climate action in Melbourne, Australia Human rights sit-in at the Taiwanese executive assembly. A sit-in or sit-down is a form of direct action that involves one or more people occupying an area for a protest, often to promote political, social, or ...
Franklin Eugene McCain (January 3, 1941 – January 9, 2014) was an American civil rights activist and member of the Greensboro Four.McCain, along with fellow North Carolina A&T State University students Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil and David Richmond, staged a sit-in protest at the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, after they were refused service ...
The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 0-7425-4409-5. Halberstam, David (1998). The Children. New York: Random House. ISBN 0-449-00439-2. Hampton, Henry; Fayer, Steve (1990). Voices of Freedom: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement from the 1950s through the 1980s. Bantam Books.
Liz Bolton, a mom of two kids in Connecticut, noticed a “cool” alternative when she saw a Santa sitting on a couch, giving kids the natural opportunity to sit beside him rather than on his lap.
The Atlanta sit-ins were a series of sit-ins that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States.Occurring during the sit-in movement of the larger civil rights movement, the sit-ins were organized by the Committee on Appeal for Human Rights, which consisted of students from the Atlanta University Center.