10 Silent Protests That Made Major Noise
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Greensboro Sit-Ins
On February 1, 1960, four men sat down at a Woolworth lunch counter in North Carolina. When they were denied service at the “white’s only” counter, the men refused to leave and stayed until closing. The next day, the men, joined by other protesters, returned to that lunch counter and staged another sit-in. Hundreds would ultimately join in this effective, nonviolent protest and this would become a powerful weapon in the arsenal of the civil rights movement. The results were damning for stores with segregationist policies. Lost profits and negative publicity made many opt for desegregation.
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