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    The sit-in movement, sit-in campaign or student sit-in movement, were a wave of sit-ins that followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North...
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  • sit-in of the civil rights movement, the Greensboro sit-ins were an instrumental action, and also the best-known sit-ins of the civil rights movement...
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    organisation. Lunch counter sit-ins were a nonviolent form of protest used to oppose segregation during the civil rights movement, and often provoked heckling...
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  • counters in downtown Nashville, Tennessee. The sit-in campaign, coordinated by the Nashville Student Movement and the Nashville Christian Leadership Council...
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  • Si̍t-chûn Movement (Chinese: 實存運動; Japanese: じつぞんうんどう), inasmuch as the Kyoto School, Neo-Confucianism and other prominent philosophical movements in...
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  • The Atlanta sit-ins were a series of sit-ins that took place in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. Occurring during the sit-in movement of the larger civil...
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    The Charleston sit-ins were a series of peaceful protests during the sit-in movement of the civil rights movement of the 1960s in Charleston, South Carolina...
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    Jews played an important role in the American civil rights movement, forming alliances with African American leaders and organizations. Jewish individuals...
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  • sit-in was one of the first sit-ins during the civil rights movement, occurring between August 19 and August 21, 1958, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. In...
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  • head of the local youth council. On March 16, 1960, the movement began with a series of sit-ins conducted by several dozen student activists at segregated...
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    civil rights movement. Four students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T) started the Greensboro sit-ins at a "whites...
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  • Douglas E. Moore (category African-American people in Washington, D.C., politics)
    actions of students in places such as Greensboro, North Carolina, Moore was able to organize additional sit-ins during the sit-in movement that spread all...
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    The black power movement or black liberation movement was a branch or counterculture within the civil rights movement of the United States, reacting against...
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    whom went on to lead in the movement from the 1950s. During the McCarthy era, White did not openly criticize McCarthy's campaign in Congress against communists...
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  • Friendship Nine (category 1961 in South Carolina)
    Nashville sit-ins strategy of "Jail, No Bail", which lessened the huge financial burden civil rights groups were facing as the sit-in movement spread across...
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    also used to make the incline sit-up easier. More intense movement is achieved by doing weighted sit-ups, incline sit-ups with arms behind neck and even...
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    I Have a Dream (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    Memorial in Washington, D.C., the speech was one of the most famous moments of the civil rights movement and among the most iconic speeches in American...
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    small, local black congregation into an influential nationwide movement. He was unique in his embrace of both black nationalism and pan-Africanism, with...
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    an African-American clergyman and civil rights movement leader, was fatally shot at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at 6:01 p...
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    Stokely Carmichael (category American expatriates in Guinea)
    Inspired by the sit-in movement in the southern United States during college, Carmichael became more active in the Civil Rights Movement. In his first year...
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    Wayback Machine – Civil Rights Movement Archive "America's First Sit-Down Strike: The 1939 Alexandria Library Sit-In". City of Alexandria. Archived from...
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    Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (category Civil rights movement)
    commitment in the United States to the civil rights movement during the 1960s. Emerging in 1960 from the student-led sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in Greensboro...
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  • Katz Drug Store (category American companies established in 1914)
    sought to end the racial segregation of eating places in their city, sparking a sit-in movement in Oklahoma City that lasted for years. "Katz Drugs Store...
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  • protest was organized by the Mattachine Society who were inspired by the sit-in movement. A resulting lawsuit at the New York State Supreme Court found that...
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    Little Rock Nine (category Civil rights movement)
    Black students the option of attending Hall. This new Blossom Plan did not sit well with the NAACP and, after failed negotiations with the school board...
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    The Lily-White Movement was an anti-black political movement within the Republican Party in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries...
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    Sermon on the Mount (category Christian ethics in the Bible)
    sermon is given in Matthew 5:1-2. There, Jesus is said to see the crowds, to go up the mountain accompanied by his disciples, to sit down, and to begin...
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    Letter from Birmingham Jail (category 1963 in Alabama)
    marches and sit-ins against racism and racial segregation in Birmingham. The nonviolent campaign was coordinated by the Alabama Christian Movement for Human...
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    Andrew Goodman (activist) (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    participated in a 1960 protest at a New York Woolworth's as part of the sit-in movement protesting the segregationist policies of the five-and-dime store. In 1961...
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    Diane Nash (category Nashville Student Movement)
    interactions in each simulation and sit-in, reminding them to have love and compassion for their harassers. This movement was unique for the time in that it...
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