- On Febuary 1, 1960 four African American college students oreder doughnuts and coffee at a restaurant named Woolsworth's lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, which at the time this was a white only restaurant at the time.
- The resturant manager refused to serve them and asked them to leave. The four men did not give up their seats and remained there.
- Word of this spread fast and this sparked the begin of many other simular protests.
- Elsewhere other protesters began wade-ins at beaches and read-ins at libraries

The Greensboro Sit In Insident