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Sit-Ins 4 college students from North Carolina Greensboro, NC 1960

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Sit-Ins

4 college students from North Carolina A & TGreensboro, NC 1960

Next day, came back with 27 other students

The next day, 63 more

The 4th day, white students joined them

5th day, there were 300!

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The city started cracking down--45 charged with trespassing

Students responded with a boycott

Sales dropped by 1/3 and merchants gave in!!!

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Civil rights leader James Lawson led trainings in non-violent resistance techniques in Tennessee

The Sit-In movement spread like wildfireBy April 1961, 150 communities had staged sit-ins

And continues to do so today…

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Students did not fight back—used passive

resistance

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1:00-22:00 Nashville Sit Ins

The Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was started as the student-wing of the Movement

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QxKatJ7Wt-k

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Cabinets

Closet

Mr. D’s Desk

Door

Lunch Counter

SeatWhiteboard

Desk

Jail CellLunch

Counter Seat

Lunch Counter

Seat

Lunch Counter

Seat

Lunch Counter

Seat

Closet

Police &White Teens Stand Right Outside the Door

Protesters Wave #2

Protesters Wave #1

Protesters Wave #3

Waitresses & Manager

Windows

2 Greensboro Market Area East Greensboro Study Area

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Scott Foresman Reading Street - Pearson SuccessNet€¦ · Greensboro, North Carolina, on February 1, 1960, four local college students continued to sit at a lunch counter after being

Decade Review. Long hot summers U-2 incident Détente Freedom Summer Greensboro sit-ins 1960s What else happened?

Greensboro recognitionandcelebration

Greensboro Four

Greensboro Housing Authority - Greensboro Housing … · 2018-08-30 · PROJECT TITLE PAGE 000101 - 1 Project Manual for: Greensboro Housing Authority - Greensboro Housing Management

The Greensboro four sit-ins

DECADE ASSOCIATION. 1960s Freedom Summer Greensboro sit-ins U-2 incident détente

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Greensboro Complaint Against Greensboro Inn

Greensboro College Greensboro, NC 2019 - passportcamps.org · 2019-04-16 · PASSPORT at Greensboro College 815 West Market Street Greensboro, NC 27401 Housing Air-conditioned dorm

From May 17, 1954 To the 1960 Sit-Ins the MILITANT€¦ · From May 17, 1954 To the 1960 Sit-Ins See Editorial Page 3 the MILITANT PUBLISHED WEEKLY IN THE INTERESTS OF THE WORKING

SIGNS OF JIM CROW from the Library of Congress Collection Produced by Carole Weatherford Author, Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins Co-produced

Greensboro Urban Ministry Remains SUMMER Committed to ......u.s. postage paid greensboro, nc permit no. 334 Greensboro Urban Ministry 305 W. Gate City Blvd. Greensboro, NC 27406 GUM

Unit 10 – The New Frontier and Civil Rights (1960-63) White = Lecture Notes Yellow = Reading Quiz Notes 1960 Election “flexible response” Sit-ins - image

Greensboro Sit-Ins

Zoning Process in Greensboro (Zoning 101) Greensboro Neighborhood Congress August 13, 2015

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Greensboro Sit-in. February 1, 1960—Four black college freshmen entered a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter and demanded service. The students were

The Greensboro Sit-Ins:

The Sit-Ins of 1960 - · PDF fileThe Sit-Ins of 1960 ... Montgomery, Tallahassee & other cities, and the assassinations of voter registration activists such as Harry & Harriet Moore,

Greensboro, February 1960

Discover Interventional Radiology at Greensboro … Interventional Radiology at Greensboro Imaging ... Dr. Tony Deveshwar ... Discover Interventional Radiology at Greensboro Imaging

The Greensboro Four February 1, 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina Four African-American freshmen from a local university sat down at the lunch counter

Revolution in Mississippi, 1962 - crmvet.org · FOREWORD February 1, 1960 marked the beginning of the student sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. In a sense this is an anniversary

Social Studies Name: Directions: Use the handout to complete the … · 2015-05-19 · Sit-ins 1960 A series of sit-ins (first in Greensboro and then in Nashville) to protest segregation

The Sit-Ins of 1960 - Civil rights movement

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SIGNS OF JIM CROW from the Library of Congress Collection Produced by Carole Weatherford Author, Freedom on the Menu: The Greensboro Sit-Ins

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