Greensboro sit-ins
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The Greensboro sit-ins were a series of nonviolent protests in Greensboro, North Carolina, in 1960, which led to the Woolworth department store chain removing its policy of racial segregation in the Southern United States.
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See also
- African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–1968)
- American Civil Rights Movement Timeline
- February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four
- 1955 Read's Drug Store sit-in, occurred in Baltimore, Maryland
- 1957 Royal Ice Cream Sit-in, occurred in Durham, North Carolina
- 1958 Dockum Drug Store sit-in, occurred in Wichita, Kansas
- 1958 Oklahoma City sit-ins, occurred in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
- 1960 Nashville sit-ins, occurred in Nashville, Tennessee
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