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Protesters during the sit in Greensboro were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace. Their first amendment right was being violated and they violated keeping peace with others because during this time everybody was separated and they tried to sit a white mans diner and yeah they caused the peace to not be peace any more.

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Some of the key strategies that were used from the leaders of the sit in Greensboro included two these basic ideas. The first idea were influenced by techniques used by Mohandas Gandhi. The second and last technique they used were influenced by the freedom rides organized by congress for racial equality (core) in 1947.

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The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South. Though many of the protesters were arrested for trespassing, disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing Woolworth’s and other establishments to change their segregationist policies.

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On February 1, 1960, four young African-American men, freshmen at the Agricultural and Technical College of North Carolina, entered the Greensboro Woolworth's and sat down on stools that had, until that moment, been occupied exclusively by white customers. The four-Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr., Joseph McNeil and David Richmond-asked to be served, and were refused. But they did not get up and leave. Indeed, they launched a protest that lasted six months and helped change America. A section of that historic counter is now held by the National Museum of American History, where the chairman of the division of politics and reform, Harry Rubenstein, calls it "a significant part of a larger collection about participation in our political system." The story behind it is central to the epic struggle of the civil rights movement.

William Yeingst, chairman of the museum's division of home and community life, says the Greensboro protest "inspired similar actions in the state and elsewhere in the South. What the students were confronting was not the law, but rather a cultural system that defined racial relations."

Joseph McNeil, 67, now a retired Air Force major general living on Long Island, New York, says the idea of staging a sit-in to protest the ingrained injustice had been around awhile. "I grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina, and even in high school, we thought about doing something like that," he recalls. After graduating, McNeil moved with his family to New York, then returned to the South to study engineering physics at the technical college in Greensboro.

On the way back to school after Christmas vacation during his freshman year, he observed the shift in his status as he traveled south by bus. "In Philadelphia," he remembers, "I could eat anywhere in the bus station. By Maryland, that had changed." And in the Greyhound depot in Richmond, Virginia, McNeil couldn't buy a hot dog at a food counter reserved for whites. "I was still the same person, but I was treated differently." Once at school, he and three of his friends decided to confront segregation. "To face this kind of experience and not challenge it meant we were part of the problem," McNeil recalls.

The Woolworth's itself, with marble stairs and 25,000 square feet of retail space, was one of the company's flagship stores. The lunch counter, where diners faced rose-tinted mirrors, generated significant profits. "It really required incredible courage and sacrifice for those four students to sit down there," Yeingst says.

News of the sit-in spread quickly, thanks in part to a photograph taken the first day by Jack Moebes of the Greensboro Record and stories in the paper by Marvin Sykes and Jo Spivey. Nonviolent demonstrations cropped up outside the store, while other protesters had a turn at the counter. Sit-ins erupted in other North Carolina cities and segregationist states.

By February 4, African-Americans, mainly students, occupied 63 of the 66 seats at the counter (waitresses sat in the remaining three). Protesters ready to assume their place crowded the aisles. After six months of diminished sales and unflattering publicity, Woolworth's desegregated the lunch counter-an astonishing victory for nonviolent protest. "The sit-in at the Greensboro Woolworth's was one of the early and pivotal events that inaugurated the student-led phase of the civil rights movement," Yeingst says.

More than three decades later, in October 1993, Yeingst learned Woolworth's was closing the Greensboro store as part of a company-wide downsizing. "I called the manager right away," he recalls, "and my colleague Lonnie Bunch and I went down and met with African-American city council members and a group called Sit-In Movement Inc." (Bunch is now the director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture.) Woolworth's officials agreed that a piece of the counter belonged at the Smithsonian, and volunteers from the local carpenters' union removed an eight-foot section with four stools. "We placed the counter within sight of the flag that inspired the national anthem," Yeingst says of the museum exhibit.

When I asked McNeil if he had returned to Woolworth's to eat after the sit-in ended, he laughed, saying: "Well, I went back when I got to school the next September. But the food was bland, and the apple pie wasn't that good. So it's fair to say I didn't go back often."

Owen Edwards is a freelance writer and author of the book Elegant Solutions.

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On February 1, four college students sat down to request lunch service at a North Carolina Woolworth's and ignited a struggle

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p= i see two guys, difference race, and i see them talking. They are talking about being equal and the white man is talking about this is not right and the black man is talking about we should be equal.

I= i think that the black man is gonna get kicked out of the sit in because during this time everybody was separated. i also think that their conversation is about to move into a true argument.

C= Because i see the two men talking and that they are a different race, i feel like the black man is going to get kicked out because he was a different race than the white man and that during this time everybody was separated.

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Analyze the African America civil Rifts movement lnclial strategies landmark court cases and legislation  the roles of key civil rights advocates and the media and the influence of the civil rights  advocates and the media and the influence of the civil rights movement on other groups seeking equality

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This are the men that started the sit in greensboro! They are Ezell Blair ,David Richmond, Franklin McCain, and Joseph McNeil.

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1. four african american students in greenboro  North Carolina in a protest but it was a nonviolet protest and every day more and more people joined in

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1. four african american students in greenboro  North Carolina in a protest but it was a nonviolet protest and every day more and more people joined in

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Sit in Greensboro influenced the civil rights movement by a huge number of ways.  so for example take Rosey park, what did she do? she sat in the white persons spot on the bus and was fighting to become united and not segregated. That's the same thing that happened in Greensboro but it was with college students at different restaurants.  This proved to the black male or female that you fight for what you believe in and this helped them become stronger and fight to become united with the white population. This was very very important towards the civil rights movement.