Sit-In in the United States

Sit-In

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 614 SIT-INThe civil rights movement of the 1960s embraced more than lawsuits aimed at ending racial segregation in southern public institutions. It also included several forms of direct action, such as “freedom rides,” in which blacks would ride on buses and trains, refusing to confine themselves to
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Sit-in in the U.S. Legal History

Summary

A form of nonviolent protest in which civil rights activists occupy seats in a segregated establishment.