{"id":3110,"date":"2019-05-07T20:26:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/?p=3110"},"modified":"2019-05-07T20:32:05","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T20:32:05","slug":"sit-ins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/modern-us-history\/sit-ins\/","title":{"rendered":"Sit-ins"},"content":{"rendered":"

“Greensboro Four” photo, (1960)<\/h2>\n

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This photo displays North Carolina A&T students,\u00a0David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair, and Joseph McNeil sitting at Woolworth’s lunch counter. Known as the “Greensboro Four”, these students decided to plan a sit-in at Woolworths, whose policy was to serve “whites only”. During the mid-1900s, African Americans were refused service at “whites only” establishments, which angered these students into planning a sit-in. Without breaking the rule set, the local police were unable to arrest the students, which proved the sit-in as successful. With the help of a local businessman, the sit-in gained heavy press, which would provoke sit-ins from African Americans across the south. The successfulness of this sit-in also promoted the non-violent fights for justice that was being urged for use by Civil Rights leaders. This initial\u00a0sit-in would influence sit-ins in over 55 cities, and cause Woolworth’s to remove its racial segregation as well [1].<\/p>\n

“CORE Distributing Booklet on Sit-ins”, Baltimore Afro-American (1960)
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This article from the Baltimore Afro-American\u00a0<\/em>depicts the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) strategy of distributing booklets about the sit-ins that were occurring in 1960. The article states that CORE was relaying accounts of the sit-ins and the success of sit-ins nationwide, and promoting other African Americans to plan sit-ins as well. The article also displays stories of students who have participated in sit-ins as heroic. Accompanied by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), CORE heavily promoted sit-ins and other peaceful protests in the mid-1900s. The promotion of successful nonviolent protests would help influence thousands of African Americans to join and participate in the Civil Rights Movement. Sit-ins would also create racial integration in public restaurants, and help pursue racial integration in all public institutions.<\/p>\n

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  1. Thurber, T. N. “February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four.” OAH Magazine of History<\/i> 20, no. 1 (February 01, 2006): 30-44. Accessed April 25, 2019.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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