Manifestation

Chapel Hill Nine

28 févr. 1960 · 35.91° N, 79.06° W

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28 févr. 1960
Type
Manifestation
Coordonnées
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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