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Greensboro Sit-In
1960 - Coggle Diagram
Greensboro Sit-In
1960
Aims
Desegregate public facilities e.g. libraries, cinemas, restaurants, swimming pools
Achievements
- Demonstrated that civil rights campaigns could spread quickly and affect the whole of the south
- Media covered: allowed the whole of America to witness the level of persecution faced by protestors. Increased support for CR Movement as a result
- Increased number of civil rights organisations
Civil Rights Act 1964
Explicitly made segregation of any facility or public place illegal.
(but long time after the event - was Greensboro that influential with this?)
- Showed economic power of black people in the south e.g. Woolworth's profits decreased by a third during the campaign
- By the end of 1961, 810 towns had desegregated their public places. Six months after the campaign started, black people were finally served at the lunch counter of the Greensboro Woolworth's Store
- Sit-in attached all aspects of segregation in the South, extending the existing NAACP campaigns against segregation in education
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Events
- The protest escalated 27 students joined the sit in on the second day
- By the fourth day, 300 students had joined the sit-ins
- Four local students refuse to leave the counter in the Woolworth's store. They were sat on 'whites-only' seats
- Sit-in very influential e.g. within a week six protests of a similar nature occurred in six other towns in North Carolina
- Activists also organised 'watch-ins' in cinemas, 'read-ins' in libraries' and 'wade-in' in swimming pools
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