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Great Wall Institute: The Process of the Great Wall of Los Angeles

Students line the lunch counter of a dime store for sit-in protest

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2. Nationwide protest against lunch counter segregation
3. Activists train in nonviolent tolerance to prepare for lunch counter sit- ins
5. Students line the lunch counter of a dime store for sit-in protest
6. Bertha Gilbert taken by police at lunch counter in Nashville
7. Activists getting taunted and harassed at sit in demonstration at Woolworths's Diner
8. Nonviolent tolerance training in Petersburg Virginia.
9. The Greensboro Four The Greensboro Four were four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All four were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. They were influenced by the nonviolent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, as well as the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in 1947.
10. 1960 Greensboro Sit-ins "The Greensboro Four were four young Black men who staged the first sit-in at Greensboro: Ezell Blair Jr., David Richmond, Franklin McCain and Joseph McNeil. All four were students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College. They were influenced by the nonviolent protest techniques practiced by Mohandas Gandhi, as well as the Freedom Rides organized by the Congress for Racial Equality (CORE) in 1947, in which interracial activists rode across the South in buses to test a recent Supreme Court decision banning segregation in interstate bus travel. The Greensboro Four, as they became known, had also been spurred to action by the brutal murder in 1955 of a young Black boy, Emmett Till, who had allegedly whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi store."