sit-in

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In 1960, he participated in his first sit-in, in Greenville, South Carolina, and then joined Alabama's Selma-to-Montgomery civil rights marches in 1965, where he caught King's attention.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

At Tehran University of Medical Sciences, students held a march and a sit-in in solidarity with imprisoned students and other young detainees.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 21, 2026

That summer, 1960, Jackson came home and led a sit-in at the library, his arrest a first taste of civil disobedience.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 17, 2026

He pointed to the Milstein Library sit-in last year, where more than 80 students were suspended or expelled after a mass New York Police Department arrest.

From Slate • Sep. 16, 2025

At ten o'clock Monday morning, February 8—a week to the day after the Greensboro sit-in had erupted—the lunch-counter incident was transformed into a true movement.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson