sit-in

Rather than a more conventional biopic, Heder wanted to tell the more specific story of the 504 sit-in, building out an ensemble of characters around Heumann.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026

The elections board meets in a building near the historic site where four A&T students launched the sit-in movement to protest racial segregation in 1960.

From Slate ● Jul. 23, 2026

But the demonstrators have refused to leave, maintaining a round-the-clock sit-in.

From BBC ● Jul. 22, 2026

Last month, he joined the Cockroach sit-in and went on a hunger strike, a protest tactic in India associated with Mahatma Gandhi.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 20, 2026

As the 1963-64 school year began, Hudson High students organized Selma’s first lunch counter sit-in.

From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman

Hall worried for the safety of Kirchner, an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of artificial intelligence.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 12, 2026

The movement behind nationwide protests sweeping Morocco, the GenZ 212 youth collective, called Monday for "peaceful sit-ins" to push its demands for reforms.

From Barron's ● Oct. 13, 2025

Where students organize walkouts and sit-ins to fight for a better education.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2025

Those organizations energized student movements nationwide through sit-ins and demonstrations and by getting arrested as they fought for civil rights.

From Salon ● Apr. 18, 2025

White America reacted to the lunch-counter sit-ins with equal parts alarm and confusion.

From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson