The Sit-In Movement Slavery and inequality was a major issue prior to the 1960’s, but when the sit-in movement started things began to change. This was not a quick and easy change however; many lives were lost in what were supposed to be non-violent movements employed by Martin Luther King Jr. Many African Americans were taking a stand, or shall I say “sit” for their rights. In the other hand many African Americans were avoiding any participation in the movements due to the possible consequences. There were also white individuals who were shunned from their communities and faced other harsh consequences for any kind of support offered in favor of the African Americans. The very first part of the peaceful movements were the Sit-ins, the next
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The book titled “From Sit-Ins to SNCC” states that “On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four African American students, all age seventeen od eighteen, from the all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College conducted a sit-in at the Woolworth store on Elm Street in downtown Greensboro to challenge its whites-only lunch-counter policy, before the week was out three hundred students would join them in sitting in at downtown lunch counters”. This statement explains how the sit-in of four college students started an entire movement. While this was not the first sit-in protest of the civil rights movement it did make a large impact and most would say the most significant for the movement. Woolworth did remove the policy of racial segregation. This very sit-in set in a chain of reactions causing sit-ins in many more establishes. The sit-in protests were a major factor for the civil rights movement in the endeavor for …show more content…
According to a book titled “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice” “CORE initiated the 1947 project known as the Journey of Reconciliation, which formed a blueprint for the 1961 Freedom Rides. These began in May with thirteen riders trained by CORE, expanding to encompass 450 activists. With a mandate for nonviolent protest, they boarded buses for a tour of the South, sitting, at random, in racially integrated pairs, in defiance of local law and custom, putting their personal safety and indeed their lives at risk”. CORE was around long before the real changers that were set into motion in the 1960’s and were the start of the non-violent measures taken for the protests. CORE trained the individuals that would go out and protest nonviolently, and they would often take beatings or even lose their lives for the greater good of the movement for
The book titled “From Sit-Ins to SNCC” states that “On the afternoon of February 1, 1960, four African American students, all age seventeen od eighteen, from the all-black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College conducted a sit-in at the Woolworth store on Elm Street in downtown Greensboro to challenge its whites-only lunch-counter policy, before the week was out three hundred students would join them in sitting in at downtown lunch counters”. This statement explains how the sit-in of four college students started an entire movement. While this was not the first sit-in protest of the civil rights movement it did make a large impact and most would say the most significant for the movement. Woolworth did remove the policy of racial segregation. This very sit-in set in a chain of reactions causing sit-ins in many more establishes. The sit-in protests were a major factor for the civil rights movement in the endeavor for …show more content…
According to a book titled “Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice” “CORE initiated the 1947 project known as the Journey of Reconciliation, which formed a blueprint for the 1961 Freedom Rides. These began in May with thirteen riders trained by CORE, expanding to encompass 450 activists. With a mandate for nonviolent protest, they boarded buses for a tour of the South, sitting, at random, in racially integrated pairs, in defiance of local law and custom, putting their personal safety and indeed their lives at risk”. CORE was around long before the real changers that were set into motion in the 1960’s and were the start of the non-violent measures taken for the protests. CORE trained the individuals that would go out and protest nonviolently, and they would often take beatings or even lose their lives for the greater good of the movement for