Editing Sit-in (section)

====1960 Greensboro and Nashville====
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Following the [[Oklahoma City]] sit-ins, the tactic of non-violent student sit-ins spread. The [[Greensboro sit-ins]] at a [[F.W. Woolworth Company|Woolworth's]] in [[Greensboro, North Carolina]], on February 1, 1960, launched a wave of anti-segregation sit-ins across the South and opened a national awareness of the depth of segregation in the nation.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm#1960greensboro First Southern Sit-in, Greensboro NC] ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive</ref> Within weeks, sit-in campaigns had begun in nearly a dozen cities, primarily targeting Woolworth's and [[S. H. Kress & Co.|S. H. Kress]] and other stores of other national chains.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm#1960sitins Sit-ins Spread Across the South] ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive</ref>

The largest and best-organized of these campaigns were the [[Nashville sit-ins]], whose groundwork was already underway before the Greensboro events. They involved hundreds of participants, and led to the successful desegregation of Nashville [[lunch counter]]s.<ref>[http://www.crmvet.org/tim/timhis60.htm#1960nsm Nashville Student Movement] ~ Civil Rights Movement Archive</ref> Most of the participants in the Nashville sit-ins were college students, and many, such as [[Diane Nash]], [[James Bevel]], [[Bernard Lafayette]], and [[C. T. Vivian]], went on to lead, strategize, and direct almost every aspect of the 1960s civil rights movement. The students of the [[historically black colleges and universities]] in the city played a critical role in implementing the Nashville sit-ins.{{Citation needed|date=April 2014}}

'''1963 Flagstaff Arizona'''

The NAACP recruited 10 high school and middle school students from Flagstaff Junior High School and Flagstaff High School to protest the refusal of the El Charro Cafe to serve a bus load of Negro tourists from New Jersey. Shirley Sims, a 14-year-old member of the NAACP Youth Corp at Flagstaff Junior High School, accepted the invitation to participate in a [[nonviolent]] sit-in demonstration. Each of the youth members were given $5 with the instructions to go inside and sit down. If they were able to order a meal they would pay for it, if not they would sit there. Reportedly, none of the members were served. Joseph Watkins, an official of the Arizona Branch of the NAACP, reported to the Flagstaff City Council that none of the youths had been served and that there had been no violence. Watkins also stated that unless the restaurant had a change in policy, more sit ins would be staged, "but whatever methods we employ or encourage will be peaceful." Sims stated in an ''Arizona Daily Sun'' article<ref>[https://azdailysun.com/news/local/integrating-flagstaff-shirley-sims-at-the-center-of-desegregation/article_0d733118-404f-11e1-9b3a-0019bb2963f4.html ''Dailey Sun'' article]</ref> in 2017 that, "it wasn't scary because a lot of the people who frequented that restaurant were our teachers, and they encouraged us."