Sit-In and the Southern Leadership Training and Strategy Planning Conference
The Youth Division of the South East NAACP document plans and maps out the future of the Lunch Counter Sit-Ins and Desegregation. The 1960 Youth Division Primary Documents highlight student arrests, demonstrations held by the students in the South Eastern Region, conferences, and plans of action. The document is significant due to it being a written record of what happened and how the Youth Lunch Counter Sit-Ins were formed and organized. The documents are important to let other college students of this day and age know what the people before them went through and how to know how brave they were fro putting their lives on the line for what they believed in. Often times people tend forget the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the important role college students had in it. College student’s Lunch Counter Sit-Ins …show more content…
The record also goes into detail on the date, time, and place of when a sit-in demonstration was done and how many were arrested. For Example, a sit-in with students from Philander C. Smith College at Little Rock, Arkansas on March 10th, 1960. The document states that five students were arrested for because they refused to the leave the store after the food counter had been closed. Information from sit-In demonstrations from Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas were also collected and recorded and put into these documents. Demonstration had become a spark that ignited a fire in the hearts and minds all students at many different colleges. A statement by the President of Xavier University is released in the documents and the statement announced that the demonstration in the New Orleans area would be more “intellectual rather than emotional.” The students participating would be nonviolent; thinking with their minds to evoke change and not their
The Youth Division of the South East NAACP document plans and maps out the future of the Lunch Counter Sit-Ins and Desegregation. The 1960 Youth Division Primary Documents highlight student arrests, demonstrations held by the students in the South Eastern Region, conferences, and plans of action. The document is significant due to it being a written record of what happened and how the Youth Lunch Counter Sit-Ins were formed and organized. The documents are important to let other college students of this day and age know what the people before them went through and how to know how brave they were fro putting their lives on the line for what they believed in. Often times people tend forget the history of the Civil Rights Movement and the important role college students had in it. College student’s Lunch Counter Sit-Ins …show more content…
The record also goes into detail on the date, time, and place of when a sit-in demonstration was done and how many were arrested. For Example, a sit-in with students from Philander C. Smith College at Little Rock, Arkansas on March 10th, 1960. The document states that five students were arrested for because they refused to the leave the store after the food counter had been closed. Information from sit-In demonstrations from Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas were also collected and recorded and put into these documents. Demonstration had become a spark that ignited a fire in the hearts and minds all students at many different colleges. A statement by the President of Xavier University is released in the documents and the statement announced that the demonstration in the New Orleans area would be more “intellectual rather than emotional.” The students participating would be nonviolent; thinking with their minds to evoke change and not their