1 févr. 1960 - Sit-ins (Feb 1, 1960)

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The past six years dramatic changes have occurred in the pattern of Negro-white rela- tions in the South. Outside the sphere of
government, perhaps the three most significant demonstrations of the change have been the Montgomery bus boycott of 1955-56, the Tallahassee bus boycott of 1958, and the student sit-ins which began in February 1960, when four freshmen from A. & T. College walked in F. W. Woolworth's Greensboro department store and sat down at the lunch counter (Ruth Searles, 215).

On February 1, 1960, the four sat down at the lunch counter inside the Woolworth store. Woolworth’s lunch counter policy was to serve whites only and the staff, which included black employees, refused the four men service. The store manager, Clarence Harris, asked them to leave, but the four men stayed until the store closed that night (BlackPast, 2024).

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Ruth Searles, and J. Allen Williams, Jr. “Negro College Students’ Participation in Sit-Ins.” Social Forces, vol. 40, no. 3, 1962, pp. 215–20. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.2307/2573631. Accessed 11 Apr. 2024.

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