- Title:
- Sit-ins & the movement
- Date of Original:
- 1995/2022
- Subject:
- Sit-ins--North Carolina--Greensboro
Sit-ins--United States
Civil rights movement--United States
Civil rights movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights demonstrations--United States
Civil rights demonstrations--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
African American civil rights workers
Civil rights workers--North Carolina--Greensboro
Civil rights workers--United States
Protest movements--North Carolina--Greensboro
Protest movements--United States
Direct action--North Carolina--Greensboro
Direct action--United States
African American college students--North Carolina--Greensboro
F.W. Woolworth Company
Greensboro (N.C.)--Race relations--History--20th century
Race relations
Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
African Americans--Segregation--North Carolina--Greensboro
Race discrimination--North Carolina--Greensboro - People:
- Khazan, Jibreel, 1941-
McCain, Franklin (Franklin Eugene), 1941-
McNeil, Joseph (Joseph Alfred), 1942-
Richmond, David (David Leinail), 1941-1990
Harris, C. L.
Johns, Ralph, 1916-1997
Moebes, Jack, 1911-2002
Spivey, Jo Jones, 1917-2003 - Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Guilford County, Greensboro, 36.07264, -79.79198
- Medium:
- instructional materials
timelines (chronologies)
black-and-white photographs
texts (document genres)
biographies - Type:
- Text
- Description:
- History section of the Web site of the International Civil Rights Center and Museum in Greensboro, North Carolina. The site documents the sit-ins beginning on February 1, 1960 and spreading throughout the world. The Museum then explores day-to-day events and milestones of the 1960s as the movement spread throughout the south and across the nation and the world. The site has a timeline of the movement, photographs, and information on the sit-in and the participants.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.sitinmovement.org/
- Contributing Institution:
- International Civil Rights Center and Museum
- Rights:
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