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

Officersshot and killed a man who allegedly charged at them carrying a knife in Jennings, Missouri on Friday night.

A tense standoff started when the 23-year-old man’s mother called police for help before 9:30 p.m., saying her son had barricaded himself in their home and was acting erratically. Police said she warned them that her son, identified as Thaddeus McCarroll, had a knife and was

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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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