Sit Ins

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By the end of the 1960s approximately one hundred southern cities had experienced sit-ins

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In 1960 Greensboro, North Carolina, was a rapidly growing city of 120,000 that prided itself on the progressive nature of race

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In 1960 the SNCC quickly became one of the most active civil rights organizations

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In the 1960s the SNCC was born

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On April 2 the two stores closed their lunch counters

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On February 1, 1960, 4 black freshman students entered a store to eat lunch and were told blacks had to eat at a different counter

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On February 8 sit-ins began in the neighboring city of Winston-Salem, North Carolina

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On July 25, 1960, the stores desegregated their lunch counters

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Sit-ins resumed on April 1, though, because the stores had not desegregated the lunch counters

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The Greensboro sit-ins touched off the tidal wave of direct, confrontational nonviolent protest marked the early 1960s

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