20th Century
The Greensboro Sit-ins of 1960 and the Woolworth Lunch Counter
Four college freshmen sat down at a Greensboro lunch counter and refused to leave. Within weeks, the protest had spread across the South.
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20th Century
Ella Baker and the Founding of SNCC at Shaw University, April 1960
Weeks after Greensboro, Ella Baker gathered sit-in students in Raleigh and urged them to stay independent. Her idea of leadership shaped SNCC from the start.