print email comment close Greensboro Sit-Ins: Launch of a Civil Rights Movement URL: http://www.sitins.com/ Description: Presents hours of audio clips, articles, and photographs about the Greensboro, North Carolina, sit-ins that started February 1960. Covers the young black men who sat at a whites-only lunch counter in a Woolworth store, a timeline, and news articles, a video clip of the unveiling of the statue honoring the occasion, and links to other civil rights sites. A project of the News & Record newspaper, which supplied much of the content, and the Greensboro Public Library. Publisher: The Depot Library of Congress Subject Headings: African Americans -- Civil rights African Americans -- History Black History Month Civil rights demonstrations -- North Carolina -- Greensboro Civil rights movements Civil rights workers LII classic content United States -- Race relations LII Database Information: Record 853 created by Wendy Hyman on 02/08/2002 Last modification on 02/03/2005 Published: 02/08/2002   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/853