Useful Links
Sit ins- background & context
https://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm#1960greensboro Feb. 1, 1960: The Greensboro Sit-in Begins https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/greensboro-sit-in/ The Sit ins as described by SNCC https://snccdigital.org/events/sit-ins-greensboro/ Short Description of the Sit ins https://www.ncpedia.org/greensboro-sit-ins |
Primary Sources
Documents Highlight Response to Sit-Ins Several documents available online through the North Carolina Digital Collections show how North Carolina Governor Luther Hodges and other state officials responded to the situation and demonstrate how public opinion was divided over the protests. https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2016/02/01/documents-highlight-response-to-sit-ins The Sit ins: The Students Report https://snccdigital.org/wp-content/uploads/digitalcollections/sitin.pdf |
Lessons
National Impact of the Woolworth Store, Site of the Greensboro Sit-In
This lesson is designed to introduce the events of the Greensboro Sit-In and understand its national impact on the Civil Rights Movement by looking at key primary sources. Students will also take a look at the Woolworth Store as a national landmark and the historical significance it holds as well its role it plays in our local community as a symbol of the struggle for equality by African Americans. This lesson could be incorporated easily into the Civil Rights Unit of the American History curriculum.
https://hsp.org/education/landmark-lesson/national-impact-of-the-woolworth-store-site-of-the-greensboro-sit-in
This lesson is designed to introduce the events of the Greensboro Sit-In and understand its national impact on the Civil Rights Movement by looking at key primary sources. Students will also take a look at the Woolworth Store as a national landmark and the historical significance it holds as well its role it plays in our local community as a symbol of the struggle for equality by African Americans. This lesson could be incorporated easily into the Civil Rights Unit of the American History curriculum.
https://hsp.org/education/landmark-lesson/national-impact-of-the-woolworth-store-site-of-the-greensboro-sit-in