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Initiated by young students in Greensboro, North Carolina in 1960, sit-ins spread rapidly. Local college and high school students would non-violently occupy “whites-only” seats at lunch counters.

Local students formed groups like the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played major roles in sit-ins and Freedom Rides, challenging segregation in the Deep South.

Image: Sit-in, Nashville lunch counter, 1960.

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