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Sit-in - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Greensboro sit-ins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action in the African-American Civil Rights Movement, leading to increased national sentiment at a crucial period in American history. On February 1, 1960...
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Although there had been a few sit-in protests before 1960, including two in 1943, the mass mobilization of 1960 was new. ... In 1960, through CORE's "Sit-ins", African American students entered the political arena in large numbers for the first time, the character of the civil rights protesting began to change.
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However, this was not the first time sit-ins were used at lunch counters. This method of nonviolent protest had been used in 1943 in Chicago by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), in St. Louis in 1949, and in Baltimore in 1953. In these previous sit-ins, they had not gained much attention from the media or the public.
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Rather than standing for a cause, people across America are sitting in to draw attention to their frustrations with our country's health care system and the abuses of American insurance companies. ... I'm rather surprised that HuffPo wasn't clear in noting that these sit ins are not for the public option, but for Medicare...
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What ensued were bombings, the release of animals from the research facility, the destruction of ATMs, the sinking of boats, and even “virtual sit-ins” — distributed denial of service attacks done the old-fashioned way, with thousands of protesters repeatedly clicking targeted websites to slow or shutter them.
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