what group was responsible for the sit-in movement
The sit-ins that changed America. The civil rights movement was energized by these '60s-era protests. The sixties were born on Feb. 1, 1960, 50 years ago this week, when four African American college students staged the first sit-in at a segregated lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C. Since then, the mythology of the '60s has dominated the idea of youthful activism.