Greensboro sit ins (feb 1, 1960 – jul 25, 1960)
Description:
-Woolworth's lunch counter-grassroots movement: started with 4 black students, "Greensboro Four" (--> SNCC) - not linked to civil right movement in Alabama
-led to desegregation of lunch counter
-spread rapidly throughout the South, & attacked all areas of segregation in daily life
Added to timeline:
Date:
feb 1, 1960
jul 25, 1960
~ 5 months and 25 days