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The Lunch-Counter Sit-Ins - Socialist Worker
Brian Jones explains how the civil rights movement got a new burst of energy through the actions of four college students in Greensboro, N.C.
https://socialistworker.org/2012/10/19/the-lunch-counter-sit-ins
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The Sit-Ins That Changed America - LAtimes
The "sixties" were born on Feb. 1, 1960, 50 years ago this week, when four African American college students staged the first sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. Since then, the mythology of the '60s has dominated the idea of youthful activism.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/jan/31/opinion/la-oe-lewis31-2010jan31
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Civil Rights Sit-In at the Woolworth's Lunch Counter: Why It Worked
It was Feb. 1, 1960, when four black students sat down at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., and ordered coffee. As TIME reported, “the white patrons eyed them warily, and the white waitresses ignored their studiously polite requests for service.”
http://time.com/3691383/woolworths-sit-in-history/
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Sit-In Movement - United States History - Britannica
Sit-in movement: Nonviolent movement of the U.S. civil rights era that began in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/sit-in-movement
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In Honor of MLK: Lunch Counter Sit-Ins of the 1960s - Village Voice
Sometimes restaurants are good for more than just eating. In honor of Martin Luther King’s birthday, Fork in the Road presents this collection of historic photos from the lunch-counter sit-ins of the early 1960’s, which forever changed the history of the United States.
https://www.villagevoice.com/2012/01/16/in-honor-of-mlk-lunch-counter-sit-ins-of-the-1960s/
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The Greensboro Sit-In - Black History - HISTORY
Find out more about the history of The Greensboro Sit-In, including videos, interesting articles, pictures, historical features and more.
http://www.history.com/topics/black-history/the-greensboro-sit-in
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Sit-ins - King Encyclopedia
The sit-in campaigns of 1960 and the ensuing creation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) demonstrated the potential strength of grassroots militancy and enabled a new generation of young people to gain confidence in their own leadership.
http://kingencyclopedia.stanford.edu/encyclopedia/encyclopedia/enc_sit_ins/
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The Sit-In Movement - US History
By 1960, the Civil Rights Movement had gained strong momentum. The nonviolent measures employed by Martin Luther King Jr. helped African American activists win supporters across the country and throughout the world.
http://www.ushistory.org/us/54d.asp
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Montgomery, Alabama Students Sit-In for U.S. Civil Rights, 1960
The Montgomery, Alabama sit-ins took place during the era of Jim Crow laws in the southern United States.
https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/content/montgomery-alabama-students-sit-us-civil-rights-1960
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The Greensboro sit-ins - North Carolina Digital History
Greensboro Record, February 2, 1960. Part of Greensboro Sit-ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement.
http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-postwar/6014
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The Sit-In Movement - Study the Past
After World War II, African American college students across the South felt the oppressive weight of racial segregation.
http://www.studythepast.com/vbprojects/sit_ins.htm
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The Sit-In Movement - Voices of the Civil Rights Movement
On October 19th, 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King and 51 others were arrested in Atlanta for refusing to leave their seats at downtown department store lunch counters.
https://voicesofthecivilrightsmovement.com/2015/12/04/the-sit-in-movement/
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Sit-in Movement - Wikipedia
The sit-in movement, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North Carolina. The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights Movement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in_movement
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Greensboro Sit-Ins - Wikipedia
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greensboro_sit-ins
