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Dates: during 1960-1960
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February 1, 1960, is now a signal date in American social history. The chronology and importance of the sit-in movement, which began on that day in Greensboro, North Carolina, are well enough known that they need not be repeated here. It is sufficient to note only that less than nine months later, lunch counters in over 110 communities in the South are for the first time serving both white and Negro customers. Non-violent resistance, the tactic of protest in the Southern cities and in Northern sympathy demonstrations, was never before used so widely or so successfully in America...
Both these insights into the reasons for non-violent resistance in the sit-in movement are no doubt valid. They deal with the Negroes' beliefs. In addition, one may profitably examine motives for the behavior which becomes fused with those beliefs...
...other major immigrant communities, Slavery meant that members of the same African village or tribe were forcibly separated and settled in different parts of this country and even that members of the same family were split from each other. Linguistic and cultural traditions were literally destroyed in the forced movement of Africans to the United States. A new culture had to be created. With no education, no economic opportunities, nothing indeed but subsistence living and that sweet soft singing' in the cotton-fields, the culture which has long been stereotyped as that of Crown and Amos 'n' Andy was born...
Previous successful non-violent protests no doubt encouraged the Negroes to undertake new demonstrations. Most notable of the earlier successes was the 1956 Montgomery bus boycott, which also marked the emergence of strong magnetic leadership--an essential factor in the success of any sustained social movement. In the Montgomery conflict, Martin Luther King came to embody the ethic, the youth, the drive of the Negroes' protest. Although King was not on the scent in the early...
...announcement by the four store chains attributed the progress in lunch counter integration to the "understanding co-operation of local civic leaders" and to the "great social change occurring in the United States which has been dramatized by the student sit-in movement...