How did sit-ins help the civil rights movement?

Answer 1

The Greenboro Sit-Ins of 1960 provoked all manner of emotions when they occurred and they remain an important part of civil rights history. Accepting and taking to the limit Martin Luther King's idea of non-violence and peaceful protests, the sit-ins provoked the type of reaction the Civil Rights Movement wanted - public condemnation of the treatment of those involved but also continuing to highlight the issue of desegregation in the South. The sit-ins started in 1960 at Greensboro, North Carolina.

In this city, on February 1st, 1960, four African American college students from North Carolina A+T College (an all-black college) went to get served in an all-white restaurant at Woolworth's. The shop was open to all customers regardless of colour, but the restaurant was for whites only. They asked for food, were refused service and asked to leave. The students had done research on what they were doing and had read a handout on tactics of resistance by CORE. This direct action by Ezell Blair Jnr, David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil sparked off the so-called sit-ins. However, they were not heroes to all African American people. One Black lady, a dishwasher, behind the counter was heard to shout at them that they were "stupid, ignorant…….rabble-rousers, troublemakers." The food counter did not serve them but the café shut 30 minutes early. When the four students returned to their campus, they were greeted as heroes by fellow students.

Other students followed their example over the following days in February. On February 2nd, 24 students took part in a sit-in at Woolworth's food counter.

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Answer 2

I am not sure if this is the correct answer but here it is anyway.

The outcomes of the sit-ins was to stop segregation from going on because they all wanted to live a normal life.

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Answer 3

During the 1960's the demonstration known as "sit - ins" helped the cause of civil rights in that they were nonviolent demonstrations. They received good media attention and brought to the forefront in America the fact that discrimination against Afro Americans still existed and needed to be changed.