Greensboro sit-in, act of nonviolent protest against a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, that began on February 1, 1960. Its success led to a wider sit-in movement, organized by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, that spread throughout the South.
Find out more about key events that shaped the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and ‘60s, such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the March on Washington, and the founding of the Black Panther Party.