Timeline Monday 1 February 1960

Monday 1 February 1960

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Events on Monday 1 February 1960 1

1960 Greensboro sit-ins begin Student protest against segregated lunch counters spreads Four Black college students stage a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina. The protest sparks a wave of similar sit-ins across the American South and energizes the civil rights movement.