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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which was one of the sit-ins that later led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States

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In March 1960, students representing Atlanta's six historically black colleges organized a series of sit-ins at area lunch counters to protest the city's legally sanctioned segregation. Local retailers subsequently agreed to negotiate with representatives from the recently formed student group Committee on Appeal for Human Rights .

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Prohibits discrimination by privately owned places of public accommodation on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin

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retired major general in the United States Air Force who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four; a group of African American college students who, on February 1, 1960, sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.

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He was a civil rights activist.  He sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in downtown  challenging the store's policy of denying service to non-white customers.

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A civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four

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The sit-ins caused private businesses to serve them when they were refusing service.

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Organization was led by Lonnie C. King and Julian Bond who were college students at that time. The organization proposed waging a series of sit-ins-the same strategy that had been successful in Nashville and Greensboro

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The First and Ninth amendments were violated during the sit-ins

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Feb 1, 1960: at the Woolworth's store

Feb 3, 1960:Twenty-five men, including the four freshmen, along with four women returned to the F.W. Woolworth store

March 1960: By the end of March, the sit-in Movement had spread to 55 cities in 13 states.

July 25, 1960: Charles Bess, Mattie Long, Susie Morrison and Jamie Robinson are the first African-Americans to eat at the lunch counter.

July 26, 1960:  Woolworth's is desegregated.

August 1961: More than 70,000 people had participated in sit-ins

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They group of individuals used discriminatory policies. Based in that whites didn't want blacks to eat and or communicate in the same area