USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -And that’s when they became associated with civil rights. Lunch counters across the country became a target for civil rights activists because these counters were in retail stores where Blacks were allowed to shop but not allowed to sit next to white customers who were eating.

Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -An early antisegregation sit-in was staged by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) at a Chicago coffee shop in 1942, and similar actions took place around the South. The lunch-counter sit-in that began the movement, however, took place in Greensboro, North Carolina, on the afternoon of February 1, 1960.

Detailed explanation-4: -A lunch counter was built into dime-stores as late as the 1950s, but into the 1960s they lost popularity to fast food restaurants such as McDonald’s and convenience stores such as Seven-Eleven.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Nashville Sit-Ins were among the earliest non-violent direct action campaigns that targeted Southern racial segregation in the 1960s. The sit-ins, which lasted from February 13 to May 10, 1960, sought to desegregate downtown lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.