Greensboro and SNCC

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