Greensboro sit ins

• What were the greensboro sit ins?


  • 4 african american students sat in a whites only lunch counter
  • Stayed untill end of the day
  • Kept returning in increasing umbers
  • White people joined the protest
• How big were the Greensboro sit ins?


  • spread to other towns and eventually states
  • 70,000 participants
• opposition to Sit ins


  • Protestors had food thrown at them and were spat on by segregationists but didn't react
  • thousand arrested led to 'jail not bail' movement - prisons became overcrowded