Civil Rights Places
This southern city in North Carolina is where four college students sat at a lunch counter in 1960 to protest segregation.
Greensboro
After the first day the four students sat at the lunch counter and were refused service, they returned the next day with more friends. About how many more students came with them on the second day?
Thirty Students
The students sat at the lunch counter and refused to leave when they were not served. This type of peaceful action is called a ____‑in.
Sit-In
The Woolworth lunch counter closed when the students stayed until this daily event. What was it?
Closing time / store closing
The sit‑ins helped to end this practice in public places where Black people were treated differently.
Desegregation
A type of store common in the mid‑twentieth century with a lunch counter; the Woolworth was one of these.
Five‑and‑dime (or five and dime) store / variety store
Four students started the Greensboro sit‑in. Name one of the four (accept any correct student name).
Ezell Blair Jr., Franklin McCain, Joseph McNeil, David Richmond (any one)
The Greensboro students returned with more students the next day and did not fight; instead they opened these to read quietly. What were they?
Books
On what date did the first four students stage the Greensboro sit‑in? (Month, day, year)
February 1, 1960
The media covered the sit‑ins and helped them spread. Media includes newspapers, radio, and this newer technology of the 1960s that showed pictures and moving images.
Television
The students who led the Greensboro sit‑ins attended North Carolina A&T, which is a type of college created to serve Black students. Name the city where North Carolina A&T is located.
Greensboro
This student activist said, “We didn’t want to put the world on fire, we just wanted to eat.” Name him (last name is Blair).
Ezell Blair Jr. (also acceptable: Jibreel Khazan; accept "Ezell Blair")
This is the word for refusing to buy or use goods from a business to pressure it to change unfair practices.
Boycott
After being refused service, the students did not damage store property. This shows they used what kind of protest behavior?
Peaceful / nonviolent behavior
Six months after the sit‑ins, the Greensboro Woolworth lunch counter was changed so that Black and white customers could do this together.
Be served together (or sit and eat together)
Name the state where the Greensboro sit‑ins began.
North Carolina
A person who speaks or writes to share news and opinions and helped spread stories of the sit‑ins to other cities is called a what?
Journalist or reporter
When many people gather and march together to show they want change, it is called a _____.
March
By the end of the week after the sit‑in began, this group helped the protests spread to other colleges and cities. Who helped spread the idea?
Students and media (students inspired others; media reported it)
The sit‑in movement is an example of how peaceful protest can lead to this type of change in laws and society. (Two words)
Social change (or policy/legal change)
Many sit‑ins and protests spread across this region of the United States where segregation laws were strongest. What is this region called?
The South
Name a leader (famous national leader) often associated with nonviolent protest during the Civil Rights Movement
MLK Jr.
The Greensboro sit‑ins are an example of a protest that follows this style of protest that avoids violence. What is it called?
Nonviolent Protests
How long (about how many months) did it take for the Woolworth lunch counter in Greensboro to be desegregated after the sit‑ins began? (Answer in months)
Six months
How did the Greensboro sit‑ins helped shape North Carolina?
The sit‑ins showed that peaceful, nonviolent protest could bring attention to unfair laws and practices, which encouraged lawmakers and business owners in North Carolina to change policies—helping to desegregate lunch counters and other public spaces.