1960
Greensboro Sit-Ins
Four African American college students launched sit-ins at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, sparking a wave of peaceful demonstrations across the South [9][10]. The campaign successfully desegregated the store and inspired hundreds of similar actions in over 50 cities by …
Greensboro, NC, NC
African American
Civil rights movement
Education & schools
Jim Crow
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Four African American college students launched sit-ins at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, sparking a wave of peaceful demonstrations across the South [9][10]. The campaign successfully desegregated the store and inspired hundreds of similar actions in over 50 cities by the end of 1960 [9][10]. It revitalized the student-led civil rights movement and led to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) [10].