In all the literature on the Civil Rights Movement, little has been written on the Upper South. This essay, which stresses the urban nature of the sit-in movement of 1960, focuses on some episodes in Virginia across a six-month period that year. Beginning in February, soon after the ...
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vil Rights Movement From Protest to Organization: The Impact of the 1960 Sit-ins on the Civil Rights MovementFrom Protest to Organization: The Impact of the 1960 Sit-ins on the Civil Rights MovementBiggs, MichaelAndrews, Kenneth T
This civil rights movement timeline covers the struggle's second phase in which nonviolent action was put to the test during the early 1960s.
From protests to Martin Luther King Jr's "I Have a Dream", explore the Black struggle against segregation and injustice in this civil rights movement timeline.
SNCC played an influential role in another form of nonviolent direct action employed in the civil rights movement: sit-ins. These demonstrations often focused upon the whites-only lunch counters across the South. Armed only with a strict code of conduct that forbade them to strike back or ...
28, 1960 THROUGH 1964Aug. 28, 1960A meeting is called by the NAACP at St. Paul AME Church. The Youth Council voted to discontinue the sit-ins and instead continue a boycott of downtown merchants. They also called on the U.S. Justice Department to investigate local law enforcement for ...
The so-called "Lunch counter sit-ins" was a pivotal step in the struggle for racial equality in the United States and also foreshadowed the student protest that became emblematic of the 1960s. The Greensboro Sit-ins pumped new life into the black civil rights movement and enabled it to ...
In the early 1960s, college students joined the movement through the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), employing tactics such as sit-ins, boycotts, and marches to desegregate public facilities. Inspired by the methods of Mohandas K. Gandhi, activists successfully pressured businesses ...
Seeking toharness the momentum of the sit-in movement, veteran civil rights organizer Ella Baker invited students who had taken part in the sit-ins to a gathering at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina in April 1960. Baker had begun her career of activism as a student at Shaw more ...