The lunch counter sit-ins was a civil rights protest that started in 1960, when group of African-American students staged a sit-in at a segregated Woolworth’s lunch counter in North Carolina, and refused to leave after being denied service. The sit-in movement soon spread throughout the south among college students. Even though this was a peaceful protest many of the protesters were arrested however that didn’t stop them from standing up for their rights.
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