CRM+FHA+Notes

Feb 19,1960- 4 African Americans stage a sit in to desegregate a lunch counter in Greensboro NC.

A sit in is when people stay in one place and practice civil disobedience until their demands are met.

Sit ins later spread across the south with hundreds protesting.

Segregationists responded by attacking protesters, beating them and arresting them.

They were successful in causing many companies to desegregate.

This led to the creation of the Student Non-Violence Coordinating Committee or SNCC which organized young protestors

Jim Lawson teaches university students about nonviolent protest styles of Mahatma Gandhi

Desegregationists attracted the attention of gangs and other segregationists. When protestors were arrested more protestors would come to fill their spots.

Whenever a protestor was assaulted they did not fight back, they just defended themselves.

The sit in movement eventually spreads to 96 cities, including Nashville.

After some violent reactions in Nashville, including the bombing of Alexander Looby's (a protest leader's) house the mayor of Nashville agrees to desegregate lunch counters.