greensboro+sit-it

Greenboro Sit-in On February 1, 1960, four African-American students of North Carolina AT&T and sat at a white-only lunch counter inside a Greensboro, Woolworth’s store. While sit-ins had been held elsewhere in the United States, the Greensboro sit-in catalyzed a wave of nonviolent protest against private- ﻿ sector segregation in the United States. media type="custom" key="9558176"