USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Greensboro sit-in was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when young African American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread to college towns throughout the South.

Detailed explanation-2: -Soon dining facilities across the South were being integrated, and by July 1960 the lunch counter at the Greensboro Woolworth’s was serving Black patrons. The Greensboro sit-in provided a template for nonviolent resistance and marked an early success for the civil rights movement.

Detailed explanation-3: -This usually involved whites sitting in the front and blacks sitting nearest to the front had to give up their seats to any whites that were standing. (

Detailed explanation-4: -The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) was organized by young men and women committed to ending racial discrimination and segregation. A massive boycott of stores with discriminating policies lead to a decisive victory–the integration of lunch counters.

Detailed explanation-5: -Sit-ins are one of the most successful forms of nonviolent protest. They stop the normal flow of business. That helps sit-ins draw attention to the protesters’ cause. If they are arrested, this has the further effect of creating sympathy for protesters.