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Fifty Years Since the Civil Rights Sit-ins
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Tuesday, February 16, 7:30PM
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UMass Campus Center #904
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FEBRUARY 1, 1960 - When four students from A & T College sat down at a lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, they had no idea that their action would initiate the largest mass movement for civil rights in the twentieth century.
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The sit-in movement kicked off a wave of civil rights actions that led to the destruction of Jim Crow segregation. In doing so, young people challenged not only white racists, but also established civil rights leaders and organizations.
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# BRIAN JONES is a teacher, actor, and activist. He is a columnist for SocialistWorker.org and is the author of a number of articles on the Civil Rights Movement, including:
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