Editing Sit-in (section)

====1955 Baltimore, Maryland====
{{See also|Read's Drug Store}}
One of the earliest lunch counter sit-ins of the [[Civil Rights Movement]] was started by a group of [[Morgan State University|Morgan State College]] (now University) students and the Baltimore chapter of CORE. Their goal was to desegregate Read's drug stores. The peaceful [[wikt:impromptu#Adjective|impromptu]] sit-in lasted less than one half an hour and the students were not served. They left voluntarily and no one was arrested. After losing business from the sit-in and several local protests, two days later the ''[[Baltimore Afro-American]]'' newspaper ran a story featuring Arthur Nattans Sr., then President of Read's, who was quoted saying, "We will serve all customers throughout our entire stores, including the fountains, and this becomes effective immediately". As a result, 37 Baltimore-area lunch counters became desegregated.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pousson|first=Eli|title=Why the West Side Matters: Read's Drug Store and Baltimore's Civil Rights Heritage|url=http://www.baltimoreheritage.org/2011/01/why-the-west-side-matters-reads-drug-store-and-baltimores-civil-rights-heritage/|access-date=July 14, 2014|publisher=[[Baltimore Heritage|Baltimore Heritage Organization]]|date=January 7, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gunts|first=Edward|title=Read's drugstore flap brings Baltimore civil rights history to life|url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2011/02/08/reads-drugstore-flap-brings-baltimore-civil-rights-history-to-life/|access-date=July 14, 2014|newspaper=[[Baltimore Sun]]|date=February 8, 2011}}</ref> Despite also being led by students and successfully targeting segregation at a store lunch counter, the Read's Drug Store sit-in did not garner the same level of attention as the 1960 Greensboro sit-ins.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://explore.baltimoreheritage.org/items/show/93|title=Read's Drug Store|first=Eli|last=Pousson|publisher=baltimoreheritage.org|accessdate=May 25, 2023}}</ref>