1960S BLACK STUDENT MOVEMENT: SNCC - 'THE SIT-IN'

SNCC and The 1960s Sit-in Movement


The Sit-in


"On February 1, 1960, four freshmen at A&T College in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat in at a segregated  Woolworth lunch counter  downtown. In a matter of days the idea leaped to other cities in North Carolina. During the next two weeks sit-ins spread to fifteen cities in five Southern states. Within the following year, over 50,000 people -

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