What the records say
- When
- 28 Feb 1960
- Kind
- Protest
- Coordinates
- 35.91° N, 79.06° W
- Description
- Sit-in at colonial drug store by nine community members
- Cause
- racial segregation
Chapel Hill Nine
1960 protestors in North Carolina, US
The Chapel Hill Nine were a group of nine African American high school students from Lincoln High School, who staged a sit-in at the Colonial Drugstore on February 28, 1960, during the Civil Rights Movement. Heavily inspired by another civil rights protest, the Greensboro sit-ins, the nine students challenged the segregation policy at the Colonial Drugstore by peacefully occupying seats at a whites-only lunch counter…
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