Sit-in movement
id:
sit-in-movement-187-1275443
title:
Sit-in movement
text:
The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign, or student sit-in movement, was a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960, led by students at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical Institute (A&T). The sit-in movement employed the tactic of nonviolent direct action and was a pivotal event during the Civil Rights Movement. African-American college students attending historically Black colleges and universities in the United States powered the sit-in movement across the c
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
American 1960s civil rights campaign
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sit-in_movement
date created:
2017-06-15T03:02:36Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T11:51:42Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q30325637","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q30325637"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5f/Civil_Rights_protesters_and_Woolworth%27s_Sit-In%2C_Durham%2C_NC%2C_10_February_1960._From_the_N%26O_Negative_Collection%2C_State_Archives_of_North_Carolina%2C_Raleigh%2C_NC._Photos_taken_by_The_News_%26_%2824495308926%29.jpg","width":1187,"height":740}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16