Greensboro sit-ins

Greensboro sit-ins
Greensboro sit-ins
Part of the Sit-in movement; in the Civil Rights Movement
	The Greensboro Four: (left to right) David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell A. Blair, Jr., and Joseph McNeil. Photo by Jack Moebes. Jack Moebes Photo Archive.
Date	February 1 – July 25, 1960 ; (5 months, 3 weeks and 3 days)
Location	Greensboro, North Carolina
Caused by	"Whites Only" lunch counters at F. W. Woolworth Company; Racial segregation in public accommodations;
Resulted in	Catalyst to sit-in movement that spread to more than 55 cities in 13 U.S. states within three months; Formation of Student Executive Committee for Justice (SECJ); Greensboro businesses desegregate lunch counters; Catalyst to the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC);
Parties
Students from: North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University; Bennett College; James B. Dudley High School; Woman's College; ; Organizations involved: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE); ;	Business lunch counters at: F. W. Woolworth Company; Kress; Walgreens; ; Organizations involved: KKK; ;
Lead figures
	Students Joseph McNeil; Franklin McCain; Ezell Blair Jr.; David Richmond; Woolworth Clarence Harris; KKK member George Dorsett;

The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July 1960, primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina, which led to the F. W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States. While not the first sit-in of the civil rights movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the best-known sit-ins of the civil rights movement. They are considered a catalyst to the subsequent sit-in movement, in which 70,000 people participated. This sit-in was a contributing factor in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).