https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e Made with the help of a typing monkey en-us 2018-04-09 14:54:42 UTC 2018-04-11 15:20:56 UTC hello@padlet.com jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/249856243 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]]> 2018-04-09 15:13:35 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/249856243 relrod6976 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/249858418 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 .]]> 2018-04-09 15:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/249858418 relrod6976 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/249861364 A civil rights activist who is best known as a member of the Greensboro Four]]> 2018-04-09 15:21:33 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/249861364 jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250046234 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.]]> 2018-04-09 21:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250046234 relrod6976 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250301480 2018-04-10 14:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250301480 jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250303292  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]]> 2018-04-10 14:45:47 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250303292 jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250304716  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.]]> 2018-04-10 14:48:00 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250304716 relrod6976 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250307869 They group of individuals used discriminatory policies. Based in that whites didn't want blacks to eat and or communicate in the same area]]> 2018-04-10 14:53:13 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250307869 relrod6976 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250310980 The First and Ninth amendments were violated during the sit-ins]]> 2018-04-10 14:59:31 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250310980 jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250311362  Prohibits discrimination by privately owned places of public accommodation on the basis of race, color, religion or national origin]]> 2018-04-10 15:00:09 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250311362 relrod6976 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250313100 2018-04-10 15:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250313100 jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250314727 The sit-ins caused private businesses to serve them when they were refusing service.]]> 2018-04-10 15:06:19 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250314727 jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250316164 2018-04-10 15:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250316164 jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250316519

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

]]> 2018-04-10 15:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250316519 jwick8644 https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250765712 2018-04-11 15:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/relrod6976/dhf7acadpl6e/wish/250765712