Greensboro+Sit-ins

Here's a mixbook for the Greensboro Sit-Ins

-This had effect in northern southern and even the far western states some companies began to desegregate because of their significant loss of sales -Four African American students sat at an all white table at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State -February 1st, 1960 -We boycotted stores those stores product sales went down significantly -Started a wave of non-violent protest movements. We sat in went to jail and then did it again it was a continuous circle and it also cared some of those companies other customers -Segregation continued because we let it so we were sick of it we sat in to change what we had We were verbally against segregation but we never did anything about it until then cWe started doing this because even white civil rights activists felt the movement were going much too slowly by Feb. 7 1960 we had 54 sit ins 9 states 15 cities -This had effect in northern southern and even the far western states -The four male freshmen organizing the protest all liked the idea of non-violent protest. One of them had read a book on Mohandas Ghandi. Another had worked with Eula Hudgens, who had actively participated in freedom rides. -In 1960 martin luther king jr. was beginning to have a pretty big influence on the civil rights movement -Whites feared if they were to close to blacks they could get a disease, or other type of complications

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