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nonviolent protests in the United States

The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in February to July , primarily in the Woolworth store — now the International Civil Rights Center and Museum — in Greensboro, North Carolina,^[1] which led to the F.

W. Woolworth Company department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.^[2] 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, people participated.^[3][4] This sit-in was a contributing factor in the formation of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC).^[5][6]

Previous sit-ins

Main article: Sit-in movement

In August , African-American attorney Samuel Wilbert Tucker organized the Ale