GREENSBORO – SIT-IN MOVEMENT
- Known as direct action
- Students at college in North Carolina
- Greensboro branch of Woolworths
- 4 black students demanded to be served at whites-only lunch counter
- Refused so remained seated until store closed
- Next day 27 students joined in, day after 80 students, by fifth day 300
- Some were arrested for trespass but kept going
- Boycotted any shop that was segregated
- Sales dropped and segregation ended
- Students endured physical and verbal abuse BUT they did not retaliate
Student Non-violent Co-ordinating Committee (SNCC) (1960)
- Founded at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina
- Received $800 from SCLC
- Organisation’s nickname was ‘Snick’
- Continued with more sit-ins
- Had some success but not loads
- Expanded in 1961 & played major role in future key civil rights events of the early 60s
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