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Feb. 1, 1960
The Greensboro Four stepped into the Woolworth's store and sat at a "whites only" counter. They remained seated until the store closed.
Feb. 2, 1960
25 men along with women returned to Woolworth's and sat from  11 a.m. until 3 p.m. while being heckled by whites.
Feb. 6, 1960
Early that morning, more than 1,400 N.C. A&T students met in Harrison Auditorium. After voting to continue the protest, many headed to the F.W. Woolworth store. They filled every seat as the store opened. A large number of counter protesters showed up as well. By noon, more than 1,000 people packed the store.
Feb. 15 - 21, 1960

Edward R. Zane, a member of the Greensboro City Council, worked with students to reach a compromise. The Mayor agreed to appoint a committee to address the issue, and the protestors agreed to continue negotiations.

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During the Civil Rights Movement the 13th amendment was violated because you can only be punished for crime. The 14th amendment was violated because African Americans were citizens and had all the same rights as a white person.

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How the sit-ins influenced other groups.

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How the sit-ins influenced other groups.

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The sit-in tactic helped integrate other facilities. By August 1961, an estimated 70,000 people had participated in sit-ins across the country (more than 3,000 of these were arrested). One of the most important results of these actions was that students from across the country became active participants in the civil right movement.

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SNCC ( The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) formed to give younger blacks more of a voice in the civil right's movement. It was one of the most important organizations of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960's. It emerged from a student meeting organized by Ella Baker held at Shaw University in April 1960. Baker was concerned that the SCLC, Southern Christian Leadership Conference, was out of touch with younger blacks who wanted the movement to make faster progress. The group played a large part in the Freedom Rides aimed at the desegregating buses and in the marches organized by King and SCLC. As the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee became more radical in the mid 1960's, it members became known within the civil rights movement as the "shock troops of the revolution."

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This political cartoon is showing that, the sit-in is happening in Greensboro, NC but it is going to effect the whole south.

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Between 1961 and 1964 the supreme court justices faced round after round of appeals of sit-in protests who had been convicted on trespass or disorderly conduct charges

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African American students sit down at a whites only counter and never used violence.

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Franklin McCain
Civil Rights activist and member of the Greensboro four.

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Joseph McNeil
Retired major general in the U.S. air force in the group of college students who sat down at Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro.

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A non-violent protest by young African American students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, NC. t soon spread to college towns throughout the region. Many were arrested for disturbing the peace, their actions made an immediate and lasting impact, forcing Woolworth's and other places to change their segregation policies.