Sit-in movement
Beginning with Greensboro sit-ins

Sit-in movement

Section Title: Beginning with Greensboro sit-ins
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Start date	Sit-in	University or College students	State	Ref.	Note

February 1, 1960	Greensboro sit-ins	North Carolina A&T State University	North Carolina

February 8, 1960	Durham sit-ins	North Carolina College

Fayetteville sit-ins	Fayetteville State Teachers College

Winston-Salem sit-ins	Winston-Salem Teachers College

February 9, 1960	Charlotte sit-ins	Johnson C. Smith University

Concord sit-ins	Barber–Scotia College

Elizabeth City sit-ins	Elizabeth City State Teachers College

Henderson sit-ins

High Point sit-ins

February 10, 1960	Raleigh sit-ins	Saint Augustine's College

Shaw University

February 11, 1960	Hampton sit-ins	Hampton University	Virginia

Portsmouth sit-ins

February 12, 1960	Rock Hill sit-ins	Clinton Junior College	South Carolina

Norfolk sit-ins	Virginia

February 13, 1960	Nashville sit-ins	Fisk University	Tennessee

Tallahassee sit-ins	Florida A&M University	Florida

Florida State University

February 14, 1960	Sumter sit-ins	Morris College	South Carolina

February 16, 1960	Salisbury sit-ins	Livingstone College	North Carolina

February 17, 1960	Chapel Hill sit-ins

February 18, 1960	Charleston sit-ins	South Carolina

Shelby sit-ins	North Carolina

February 19, 1960	Chattanooga sit-ins	Tennessee

February 20, 1960	Richmond sit-ins	Virginia Union University	Virginia

February 22, 1960	Baltimore sit-ins	Coppin State Teachers College	Maryland

Frankfort sit-ins	State Normal School for Colored Persons	Kentucky

February 25, 1960	Montgomery sit-ins	Alabama State College	Alabama

Orangeburg sit-ins	Claflin College	South Carolina

February 26, 1960	Lexington sit-ins	Kentucky

Petersburg sit-ins	Virginia State College	Virginia

Tuskegee sit-ins	Tuskegee Institute	Alabama

February 27, 1960	Tampa sit-ins	Florida

March 2, 1960	Columbia sit-ins	Allen University	South Carolina

Benedict College

Daytona Beach sit-ins	Bethune–Cookman College	Florida

St. Petersburg sit-ins

March 4, 1960	Houston sit-ins	Texas Southern University	Texas

Miami sit-ins	Florida Memorial College	Florida

March 7, 1960	Knoxville sit-ins	Knoxville College	Tennessee

March 8, 1960	New Orleans sit-ins	Dillard University	Louisiana

Southern University

March 10, 1960	Little Rock sit-ins	Arkansas Baptist College	Arkansas

March 11, 1960	Austin sit-ins	Huston–Tillotson College	Texas

Galveston sit-ins

March 12, 1960	Jacksonville sit-ins	Edward Waters College	Florida

March 13, 1960	San Antonio sit-ins	Texas

March 15, 1960	Atlanta sit-ins	Clark College	Georgia

Morehouse College

Morris Brown College

Spelman College

Corpus Christi sit-ins	Texas

St. Augustine sit-ins	Florida

Statesville sit-ins	North Carolina

March 16, 1960	Savannah sit-ins	Savannah State College	Georgia

March 17, 1960	New Bern sit-ins	North Carolina

March 19, 1960	Memphis sit-ins	Owen Junior College	Tennessee

Wilmington sit-ins	North Carolina

Arlington sit-ins	Virginia

March 26, 1960	Lynchburg sit-ins	Virginia

March 28, 1960	Baton Rouge sit-ins	Southern University	Louisiana

New Orleans sit-ins	Xavier University

March 29, 1960	Marshall sit-ins	Wiley College	Texas

March 31, 1960	Birmingham sit-ins	Wenonah State Technical Institute	Alabama

Miles College

April 2, 1960	Danville sit-ins	Virginia

April 4, 1960	Darlington sit-ins	South Carolina

April 9, 1960	Augusta sit-ins	Paine College	Georgia

April 12, 1960	Norfolk sit-ins	Virginia State College (Norfolk Division)	Virginia

April 17, 1960	Biloxi sit-ins	Mississippi

April 23, 1960	Starkville sit-ins

April 24, 1960	Charleston sit-ins	Burke High School	South Carolina

April 28, 1960	Dallas sit-ins	Paul Quinn College	Texas

June 17, 1960	Baltimore sit-ins	Maryland

Sentence(s)

The sit-in movement followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North Carolina.

final_sentence: The sit-in movement followed the Greensboro sit-ins on February 1, 1960 in North Carolina.