2.Greensboro sit-in was a non violent protest carried out by african american students. The original students who began the greensboro where Ezell Blair, David Richmond, Franklin McClain and Joseph McNiel. They were soon known as the “Greensboro Four.”
The protest began on february 1st 1960, when he nonviolent protest was carried out by the African American students mentioned above. They entered the segregated woolworth’s, Greensboro, North Carolina. They then took a seat at the lunch counter where there policy was to refuse service to coloured people.This action lead to the police coming but were unable to take action due to lack of provocation, by this time it was being televised and highly anticipated. The “Greensboro Four” stayed untill …show more content…
Raising awareness for black civil rights campaign was huge at this time, however the reason I chose to write a report of this particular protest was the pure reason of how
1.In this report I willl cover the Greensboro sit-in this will included the causes of such an event and the effects and results that where everdent due to the protest itself. This report is carried out in a way in which you can relate the results back to the original causes that allows you to observe the success of the Greensboro sit-in. The three causes/results I will be covering today are; Raising awareness for black civil rights; Original aim - desegregate super markets etc; And
The Greensboro sit-ins Raised awareness beyond their own beliefs for the general black civil rights campaign. This was seen predominantly in the formation of the SNCC which was created out of the student sit-ins of 1960. Their focus began with the lunch counter discrimination however in 1963 they joined other groups to push jobs, income issues and voter registration for negroes. This movement was due to the large amounts of protesters; The majority of sit-ins were spread through the south this was evident as student sit-ins were organised all around North Carolina and the south. By April 50,000 fellow protesters joined the “sit-ins” fighting against black civil rights, however they were strongly characterised to act in a non-violent manner. This was preached to students and protestors by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
The protest began on february 1st 1960, when he nonviolent protest was carried out by the African American students mentioned above. They entered the segregated woolworth’s, Greensboro, North Carolina. They then took a seat at the lunch counter where there policy was to refuse service to coloured people.This action lead to the police coming but were unable to take action due to lack of provocation, by this time it was being televised and highly anticipated. The “Greensboro Four” stayed untill …show more content…
Raising awareness for black civil rights campaign was huge at this time, however the reason I chose to write a report of this particular protest was the pure reason of how
1.In this report I willl cover the Greensboro sit-in this will included the causes of such an event and the effects and results that where everdent due to the protest itself. This report is carried out in a way in which you can relate the results back to the original causes that allows you to observe the success of the Greensboro sit-in. The three causes/results I will be covering today are; Raising awareness for black civil rights; Original aim - desegregate super markets etc; And
The Greensboro sit-ins Raised awareness beyond their own beliefs for the general black civil rights campaign. This was seen predominantly in the formation of the SNCC which was created out of the student sit-ins of 1960. Their focus began with the lunch counter discrimination however in 1963 they joined other groups to push jobs, income issues and voter registration for negroes. This movement was due to the large amounts of protesters; The majority of sit-ins were spread through the south this was evident as student sit-ins were organised all around North Carolina and the south. By April 50,000 fellow protesters joined the “sit-ins” fighting against black civil rights, however they were strongly characterised to act in a non-violent manner. This was preached to students and protestors by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)