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NBC

Nbc Learn: Finishing the Dream: 1960 1962: Freedom Fighters

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of archival video clips covering protests against racial segregation in the United States in the period 1960-1962. Features clips on the Greensboro sit-in at Woolworth's lunch counters, Freedom Riders who fought bus...
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: Freedom Now

For Students 9th - 10th
When four African American North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College students refused to leave the lunch-counter at the F.W. Woolworth store in Greensboro they started the first non-violent, "sit-in" movement. Although the...
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Other

International Civil Rights Center: Explore History: Civil Rights Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1960, four students at North Carolina A&T University decided to protest segregation laws by staging a sit-in at the Woolworth store lunch counter. Their action sparked a nation-wide protest by students that spread from just...
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PBS

Pbs: Independent Lens: February One: The Story of the Greensboro Four

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow the course of the sit-ins at the lunch counter at Woolworth's in Greensboro, South Caroina during the first week of February, 1960.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: February One (Lessons on the Greensboro Sit in of 1960)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Find two lesson plans developed for a PBS documentary about the Greensboro Four, whose sit-in at a whites-only Woolworth's lunch counter was a key event in the unfolding history of the civil rights movement. The lessons ask students to...
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Curated OER

Time, Inc: A Brief History of the Sit in Movement

For Students 9th - 10th
Time features an excellent report detailing the history of the sit-in movement which began on February 1, 1960 by four young men inside a Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's.