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The Greensboro Sit-Ins and the Power of Direct Action
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Four black college students sat down at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter, igniting a movement that reshaped American politics.
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A Greensboro sit-ins episode that turns labor history and civil-rights strategy into a case for direct action.
Labor History Today uses the Greensboro sit-ins as a clear entry point into direct action, tracing how four black college students at a segregated Woolworth's lunch counter helped push the civil-rights struggle into a new phase of public pressure and national attention.
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You want civil-rights history that connects Greensboro, Nashville, SNCC, and movement lessons that still land today.
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