On February 1, 1960, four black students in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat in protest at a segregated lunch counter in Woolworth’s, which started the student sit-in movement of the 1960s and inspired the formation of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). Sit-ins were organized to protest Jim Crow segregation laws. Eight months after that first […]
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