Sit-Ins

One of many types of discrimination black people dealt with in the 1960's was the widespread policy of many stores banding blacks from sitting down and being served at the stores lunch counters with other costumers. This took place all around the south areas. On February 1st 1960 four African American students known as the "Greensboro 4" entered the Woolworth store in downtown Greensboro, NC. The four men took a seat at the lunch counter, but were refused and were told blacks were to stand at another counter to eat or they will not get served. To protest this treatment blacks would start an organization known as Sit-Ins. This basically means nonviolent demonstrations to take a stand at equality. Word got out about the sit-in and many people started to join in on the movement, including Bennett college (all black women) and other Greensboro white colleges. Though it also attracted the Ku Klux Klan. A store called Kress closed it's lunch counter but later it reopened. Though it was roped off and only certain people could access it.

Later on a group of Sit-ins movement supporters went in and sat down Forty-Five people got arrested. Which also included three of four men of the Greensboro 4. They got out without bail. Sit-Ins protests spread from Greensboro, NC. as well as to many other dozen Southern cities as well as some in the North. By the end of 1960's about 100 Southern cities experienced the Sit-Ins movement and a third of them had decided to desegregate the lunch counters. Approximately 70,000 students were included and using tactic to produce changes. The Greensboro Sit-Ins reflected the impatience of younger generation of the Southern blacks with the pace change in race relations. This Sit-Ins movement quickly became one of the most active civil rights organizations created during the 1960's.

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