The Greensboro Sit-Ins by Garret Thompson https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf The Sit-Ins were a nonviolence civil right protest for African Americans to have a right to sit at counters of dinners. en-us 2016-05-24 12:03:25 UTC 2024-11-21 20:41:32 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padletuploads.blob.core.windows.net/aws/115420864/0ff511ee79e916f622dcd975b6404956627dfe09/90f687429a2fdb21407c2f142980dc66.jpg The Greensboro Four sit-ins were started by these people, Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, David Richmond, and Joseph McNeil. The four! garretthethompson https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112309247 2016-05-24 12:15:09 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112309247 rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112309620 2016-05-24 12:17:03 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112309620 Ezell Blair Jr rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112309754 2016-05-24 12:17:44 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112309754 First hand interview from one of the four!!!! teddywaffles1 https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112411506 2016-05-24 20:45:08 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112411506 garretthethompson https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112497055 2016-05-25 11:45:29 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112497055 Sit-ins were the first example of African American young adults (college students) being actively involved in the Civil Rights Movement! rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112497249 2016-05-25 11:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112497249 In 1960 four college students sat at a Woolworths lunch counter and refused to leave until they were served teddywaffles1 https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112497646 2016-05-25 11:50:09 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112497646 The four and others met a lot of resistance at the sit-ins, with many yelling and swearing. The police had to come to calm everyone down, including  KKK members. garretthethompson https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112497678 2016-05-25 11:50:22 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112497678 Within a week after the Woolworth's protests began, the idea had spread like wildfire to other communities, including Winston-Salem, Richmond and Nashville. rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112498251 2016-05-25 11:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112498251 By the fourth day since the sit-ins started, more than 300 people were taking place in the peaceful protests. rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112498968 2016-05-25 12:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112498968 Besides leading to similar protests in other states across the country, the sit-ins elicited a public statement.  rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112499139  President Eisenhower said he supported the students and expressed sympathy for those fighting for their human and civil rights.]]> 2016-05-25 12:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112499139 "It's a feeling that I don't think that I'll ever be able to have again. It's the kind of thing that people pray for ... and wish for all their lives and never experience it. And I felt as though I wouldn't have been cheated out of life had that been the end of my life at that second or that moment." -Franklin McCain garretthethompson https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112499205 2016-05-25 12:04:11 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112499205 teddywaffles1 https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112499505 After 1960 when the sit- ins first started the amount of racial segregation dropped rapidly.]]> 2016-05-25 12:06:25 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112499505 As a result of the Woolworth’s protest, the company’s sales dropped by a third and the store’s owners made the decision to abandon segregation policies and officially integrate the Greensboro Woolworth’s lunch counter on July 25, 1960, asking the black servers to be the first Africans American at the counter. The next day, the entire chain was desegregated. rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112499520 2016-05-25 12:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112499520 No violence was caused during the sit- ins. They did not want to cause violence because they followed and were influenced by the ides og  teddywaffles1 https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112500164 2016-05-25 12:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112500164 garretthethompson https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112500181 This "Polical Cartoon" is about how their sit-in shadowed over the entire US and caused so much change.]]> 2016-05-25 12:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112500181 rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112500237 "How four friends stood up by sitting down"]]> 2016-05-25 12:11:41 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112500237 rach_vanderven https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112501265 Click on me]]> 2016-05-25 12:18:44 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112501265 The Greensboro sit- ins inspired 78 other sit-ins across the South teddywaffles1 https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112748634 2016-05-26 20:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/garretthethompson/r43weu5kbwgf/wish/112748634