Another form of protest the civil rights movement use was called “sit-ins”. These were targeted at diners and restaurants that had segregated lunch counters. The blacks would go and sit at the white counters and wait to be served. The first sit-in was on February 1st, 1960. Four black students went to Woolworth’s store and sat at the lunch counter. The students were not arrested or served and remained there until the store closed. The next morning, twenty-four students arrived at the store and sat at the counter. This caught the eye of the local media even though no confrontations occurred. By the end of February, sit-ins occurred in seven states and thirty different locations. By the end of April, More than fifty thousand students had participated
