The Sit-In Movement
Moments In Civil Rights History
On October 19th, 1960, Dr. Martin Luther King and 51 others were arrested in Atlanta for refusing to leave their seats at downtown department store lunch counters. Eight months earlier, four black college students started the sit-in movement in Greensboro, North Carolina, inspiring protests across the country. Sentenced to six months' hard labor, Dr. King was released with help from Presidential candidate John F. Kennedy.
For more on the Student Sit-In Movement, see:
Moments in Civil Rights History - Student Sit-In Organizers Expelled
For personal accounts of the Student Sit-In Movement, see:
Elaine Turner - A Civil Rights Protester
Purnell Steen - Denver's Sit In Movement
Frank Smith - We Changed America
Rev. William Moore - The Sit-In Movement in Fayetteville, NC
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