Civil Rights Movement sit-ins

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/Civil_Rights_Movement_sit-ins

GPTKB entity

Statements (52)

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	protest
gptkbp:commemoratedBy	gptkb:Greensboro_Four_monument gptkb:International_Civil_Rights_Center_&_Museum
gptkbp:contributedTo	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Act_of_1964
gptkbp:goal	end racial segregation
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Civil Rights Movement sit-ins
gptkbp:influencedBy	Gandhian nonviolence
gptkbp:inspiredBy	gptkb:Gandhi's_Salt_March gptkb:Freedom_Rides gptkb:Student_Nonviolent_Coordinating_Committee_(SNCC) earlier labor sit-ins
gptkbp:legacy	civil rights legislation increased youth activism model for later protests
gptkbp:location	gptkb:Greensboro,_North_Carolina gptkb:Nashville,_Tennessee gptkb:United_States gptkb:Atlanta,_Georgia
gptkbp:mediaCoverage	newspapers national television
gptkbp:method	protest
gptkbp:notableEvent	gptkb:Nashville_sit-ins gptkb:Atlanta_sit-ins gptkb:Greensboro_sit-ins February 1, 1960
gptkbp:notableOrganization	gptkb:CORE gptkb:NAACP gptkb:SNCC
gptkbp:notableParticipant	gptkb:John_Lewis gptkb:David_Richmond gptkb:Diane_Nash gptkb:Ezell_Blair_Jr. gptkb:Franklin_McCain gptkb:Joseph_McNeil
gptkbp:notablePlace	gptkb:Woolworth's_lunch_counter
gptkbp:opposedBy	local police segregationists
gptkbp:organizedBy	African American students college students
gptkbp:partOf	gptkb:Civil_Rights_Movement
gptkbp:relatedTo	gptkb:March_on_Washington_for_Jobs_and_Freedom gptkb:Montgomery_Bus_Boycott gptkb:Freedom_Rides
gptkbp:resultedIn	increased national attention to civil rights desegregation of lunch counters
gptkbp:startDate	1960
gptkbp:tactics	peaceful resistance occupying segregated lunch counters refusing to leave when denied service
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Nashville gptkb:Nashville,_Tennessee
gptkbp:bfsLayer	5