WSB-TV (Television station : Atlanta, Ga.)

Description

In this silent WSB newsfilm clip from February 1960, local residents in Greensboro, North Carolina react to the recent lunch counter sit-ins at the Woolworth's store.On February 1, 1960, four African American students at North Carolina Agriculture and Technical State University in Greensboro, North Carolina, sat at the lunch counter at the Woolworth's store and refused to leave when they were denied service. This sit-in sparked other lunch counter sit-ins around the state and eventually around the country. Many younger civil rights activists responded enthusiastically to the nonviolent, direct action tactics embodied in the sit-ins. In response to the surge of student activism, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) hosted a student conference in April at Shaw University in Raleigh, North Carolina; during this meeting, the participants formed the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC). SNCC played a central roll in the Civil Rights movement for the next several years. By the fall of 1961, every Southern and border state had experienced sit-ins, with over one hundred communities effected and over seventy thousand individuals arrested throughout the country.Title supplied by cataloger.

Record Contributed By

Walter J. Brown Media Archives and Peabody Awards Collection

Record Harvested From

Digital Library of Georgia