The greensboro four biography of rory
The greensboro four biography of rory
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Greensboro sit-ins
1960 nonviolent protests in the United States
The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina,[1] which led to the F.
W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.[2] While not the first sit-in of the civil rights movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the best-known sit-ins of the civil rights movement.
They are considered a catalyst to the subsequent sit-in movement, in which 70,000 people participated.[3][4] This sit-in was a contributing factor in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).[5][6]
Previous sit-ins
Main article: Sit-in movement
In August 1939, African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker or