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February 1, 1960
The Greensboro Four sit at a Woolworth’s lunch counter reserved for white customers
March 15, 1960
Committee on Appeal for Human Rights holds first sit-in
March 16, 1960
San Antonio integrates lunch counters
March 30, 1960
Marshall police break up lunch counter sit-in
April 26, 1960
Reverend Theodore Roosevelt Thompson stages a one-man sit-in in Dallas
May 10, 1960
Nashville stores desegregate lunch counters
July 25, 1960
Greensboro lunch counters desegregated
October 17, 1960
Woolworth, Grant, Kress, and McCrory-McClellan integrate lunch counters
October 19, 1960
King is arrested at Atlanta sit-in
December 5, 1960
U.S. Supreme Court rules segregation in interstate bus terminal restaurants unconstitutional
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