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Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee  

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  • On February 1, 1960, four African American college students staged a protest by sitting down at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The popularity of using sit-ins as a means of protest had spread throughout the South. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee]

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http://data.loterre.fr/ark:/67375/N9J-GF5LGK7B-8

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