Greensboro sit-ins
1960 · Event
Four African-American students sit at a Woolworth's lunch counter; touches off sit-in movement across the South.
On these timelines: Master, USA, The Civil Rights Movement
Around 1960
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Korean War (1950)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Suez Crisis (1956)